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"She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit."
"While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence."
"We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave."
"Don't forget honey. Never let one man worry your mind. Find 'em, fool 'em and forget 'em."
"Because every portion of the body, mind, and spirit yearns for the integration of yin and yang, angelic intercourse is led by the spirit rather than the sexual organs. . . . Where ordinary intercourse unites sex organs with sex organs, angelic cultivation unites spirit with spirit, mind with mind, and every cell of one body with every cell of the other body."
"Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?"
"There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them."
"The eyes envy the mind."
"Before you change your thinking, you have to change what goes into your mind."
"Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches."
"Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief"
"You will resemble, tomorrow, the DOMINATING THOUGHTS that you keep alive in your mind today!"
"Stuff your brain with knowledge."
"Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form."
"For, besides what has been said, it should be borne in mind that the temper of the multitude is fickle, and that while it is easy to persuade them of a thing, it is hard to fix them in that persuasion"
"Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives."
"A writer needs certain conditions in which to work and create art. She needs a piece of time; a peace of mind; a quiet place; and a private life."
"I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?"
"A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining."
"READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the mysterious order of Providence, are subject to want and to disease of body or mind; but I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for making the Federal Government the great almoner of public charity throughout the United States . . . ."
