"God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God."
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"We live through myriads of seconds, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendhal has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes—a magical second, like the moment of generation, and like that moment concealed in the warm interior of the individual life, invisible, untouchable, beyond the reach of feeling, a secret experienced alone. No algebra of the mind can calculate it, no alchemy of premonition divine it, and it can seldom perceive itself."
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"The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows"
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"People love you when they on your mind/A thought is love's currency."
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"The mind precedes all things, the mind dominates all things, the mind creates all things."
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"There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves."
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"For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think."
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"The most important benefit of population size and growth is the increase it brings to the stock of useful knowledge. Minds matter economically as much as, or more than, hands or mouths."
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"To the quiet mind all things are possible."
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"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad."
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"Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience."
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"He who conquers the mind, conquers the world."
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"The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind."
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"Dream BIG dreams! Only big dreams have the power to move your mind and spirit."
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"The possession of anything begins in the mind."
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"What is perfect health? The unraveling of all imagined states of mind"
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"Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within."
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"It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions."
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"Poverty is just a state of mind."
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"I look at people's lives and you see what's not working in their lives and it usually comes from an undisciplined mind."
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