"Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt."
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"The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience."
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"I've always found drugs and alcohol somewhat pedestrian. It's like, I don't need an external agent to open my mind. I'm here, conscious, alert, present. Why would I alter that?"
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"Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though."
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"The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream."
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"Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind."
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"And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar."
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"It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth."
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"Inspiration is all around us. Don't let the brain limit the mind ."
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"The ultimate source of my mental happiness is my peace of mind. Nothing can destroy this except my own anger."
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"No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly"
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"Breath is the king of mind."
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"We need each other, deeper than anyone ever dares to admit even to themselves. I think it is a genetic imperative that we huddle together and hold on to each other. There is no question in my mind that there is nothing else in life, really, than friendship."
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"Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control."
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"Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?"
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"The one thing that I appear to have been given, bearing in mind that I am capable of being very, very scatty and extremely lazy, is the ability to concentrate on something I choose to give my time to."
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"I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently."
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"Brought up a Presbyterian, indoctrinated from the Catechism, and being naturally of an inquiring mind, I fell a ready prey to the logic of infidelity, as soon as I began to think for myself. But that which at first threatened to be the utter shipwreck of faith in God and the Bible was, under God's providence, over-ruled for good, and merely wrecked my confidence in human creed and systems of Bible misinterpretations."
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"If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not."
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"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds. Have no fear for atomic energy, 'Cause none of them can stop the time."
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