"Young men's minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after."
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"Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds."
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"Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature."
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"A painting is not thought out in advance. While it is being done, it changes as one’s thoughts change. And when it’s finished, it goes on changing, according to the state of mind of whoever is looking at it"
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"In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed."
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"Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind."
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"Underneath the world of sense perceptions and the world of mind activity, there is the vastness of being. There's a vast spaciousness. There's a vast stillness and there's a little ripple activity on the surface, which isn't separate, just like the ripples are not separate from the ocean."
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"My mind to me an empire is,While grace affordeth health."
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"Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company."
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"I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it."
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"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
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"Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man."
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"The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind."
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"I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind."
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"What is most needed for learning is a humble mind."
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"The picture you have in your mind of what you're about will come true."
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"The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity."
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"The Art of Being: A state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club."
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"He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless."
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"Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children."
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