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"An awful lot of good movies have gone unrecognized, and an awful lot of bad movies have had tremendous recognition. As long as you keep that in mind, you are never really disappointed."
"this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana."
"I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind."
"The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with."
"Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind."
"Heaven is a state of mind, not a location."
"There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the methods of operating manufactories and trades, and in minutely and unsparingly describing physical sensations. But is not realism, more than it is anything else, an attitude of mind on the part of the writer toward his material, a vague indication of the sympathy and candour with which he accepts, rather than chooses, his theme?"
"Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind."
"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."
"The the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light."
"Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action."
"A man's mind grows narrow in a narrow place."
"A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another."
"It's one of our favorite American myths that broad plains necessarily make broad minds, and high mountains make high purpose."
"When mind controls man, it’s ... Bhoga (bondage). But when man controls mind, it’s...Yoga"
"Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation."
"The best form of service is to uplift someone's state of mind."
"All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind."
"Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul."
"I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me."
