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"The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable."
"Again the important point to remember is that you should keep asking yourself questions. Do not make statements. Ask questions to yourself. The mind hates that."
"There is no illness of the body except for the mind"
"The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart."
"If there are ripples on the surface of a lake, we cannot see the depth. Similarly unless the mind is restful, we cannot experience the harmony and union within us."
"Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them."
"The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet."
"If you're sloppy, that's just fine. If you're moody, I won't mind. If you're fat, that's fine with me. If you're skinny, let it be. If you're bossy, that's all right. if you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's all right too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway."
"The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis."
"I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors."
"Become totally empty Quiet the restlessness of the mind Only then will you witness everything unfolding from emptiness"
"A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person."
"If the mind of man can believe, the mind of man can achieve."
"When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work."
"Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts."
"The curious mind embraces science; the gifted and sensitive, the arts; the practical, business; the leftover becomes an economist"
"It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions."
"It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind."
"Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings."