"The Holy Spirit illuminates the minds of people, makes us yearn for God, and takes spiritual truth and makes it understandable to us."
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"The unconditioned mind intuits truth."
"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."
"To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception"
"You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area."
"Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry."
"Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile."
"A mind always hopeful, confident, courageous, and determined on its set purpose, and keeping itself to that purpose, attracts to itself out of the elements things and powers favourable to that purpose."
"By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free."
"As God's beloved, I live in the bliss knowing that my soul is never separated from Him, for I learn to know Her in all that I see. God dissolved my mind-my separation. I cannot describe now my intimacy with Him."
"Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will."
"All the resources we need are in the mind."
"Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking."
"The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early."
"Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from."
"All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew"
"When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind."
"Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way."
"Remember, it is not the snake bite that kills, but the venom which circulates afterwards that is fatal. Do not let the snake bite of another person release any venom inside of you. You can control its entry and you are responsible for every thought in your mind."
"I don't really care about being right, I just care about success. I don't mind being wrong, and I'll admit that I'm wrong a lot. It doesn't really matter to me too much. What matters to me is that we do the right thing."