"Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand, not whatever you please, but quantity."
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"You are the Master, the mind is your servant. That is the correct relationship."
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"Don't let your mind see through your eyes."
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"When you awaken spiritually, in fact, you can use thought much more effectively than before, but you realize there is a depth to your Being, a vibrantly alive stillness that is much vaster than thought. It is consciousness itself, of which the thinking mind is only a tiny aspect."
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"I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to."
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""To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written."
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"The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning."
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"Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere"
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"The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground."
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"The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual."
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"The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size"
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"Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses"
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"Our thoughts are a field of energy cycles, a mind field, and just by our thoughts alone we impact not only ourselves but those around us as well."
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"Mind, brain, and body make the man, and the man is capable of so much!"
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"Tomorrow is tomorrow. Future cares have future cures, And we must mind today."
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"Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind."
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"I look at my own body With eyes no longer blind- And I see that my own hands can make The world that's in my mind."
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"Yoga is the study of the functioning of the body, the mind and the intellect in the process of attaining freedom."
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"When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly."
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"Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear."
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