"Free will is to mind what chance is to matter."
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"Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad"
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"You determine your future by the thoughts and pictures you hold in your mind today."
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"Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe."
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"Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere."
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"Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude."
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"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."
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"The mind always fails first, not the body. The secret is to make your mind work for you, not against you."
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"The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this the progressive "condensation" of thought. ... Steps really sink from sight. An advanced thinker sees the relations of his topics is such masses and so instantaneously that when he comes to explain to younger minds it is often hard ... Bowditch, who translated and annotated Laplace's Méchanique Céleste, said that whenever his author prefaced a proposition by the words "it is evident," he knew that many hours of hard study lay before him."
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"He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him."
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"In formulating any philosophy the first consideration must always be: What can we know? That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything? Descartes hinted at the problem when he wrote, 'My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs."
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"Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea."
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"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."
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"The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord."
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"You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody, which is really somebody. For when you become nobody there is no tension, no pretense, no one trying to be anyone or anything. The natural state of the mind shines through unobstructed - and the natural state of the mind is pure love."
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"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
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"What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions."
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"Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind."
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"The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself."
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"How many times... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice."
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