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"When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments."
"The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion."
"Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more."
"Finding faults is for those with tired minds."
"Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way."
"Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions."
"Make your will one! Don't listen with your ears, listen with your mind. No, don't listen with your mind, but listen with your spirit. Listening stops with the ears, the mind stops with recognition, but spirit is empty- and waits on all things. The Way gathers in emptiness alone. Emptiness is the fasting of the mind."
"Keep your mind focused on what you want and act accordingly. You will achieve success!"
"Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable."
"Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind."
"Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely."
"Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible."
"Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas."
"Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind."
"Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin."
"Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies."
"He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature."
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
"The way of the mind is to study many things; the way of the Beingness is to focus on one thing."
"Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality."
