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"To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret "I am free," then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before."
"The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive."
"A lot of people have pretty little heads, but it's difficult to find a pretty little mind."
"Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies."
"The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind."
"The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing."
"It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated."
"The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else."
"To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination."
"I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else."
"A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down."
"The mind has these four levels: physical, vital, buddhi, higher mind. The Supermind is far above these."
"The Creator made women to please the eye, and to boggle the mind."
"And in the gunslinger's mind, those words echoed: You dare not."
"The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind."
"The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties."
"There is a difference between WISHING for a thing and being READY to receive it. No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief."
"Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."
"Believe in the life inside you, believe in the great and holy mind within you, and push forward with the dream you have chosen until you make it."
"Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation."
