"The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage."
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"The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss."
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"The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo."
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"Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you."
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"The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God."
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"our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they create."
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"If my body is enslaved, still my mind is free."
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"Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted."
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"When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel."
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"Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top ~ that is what quotes are . . . the cream of our learning!"
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"It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery."
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"I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality."
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"As my father [Javāharlāl Nehrū] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers."
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"There seems to be one quality of mind which seems to be of special and extreme advantage in leading him to make discoveries. It was the power of never letting exceptions go unnoticed."
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"God sees the inner spirit stripped of flesh, skin, and all debris. For his own mind only touches the spirit that he has allowed to flow from himself into our bodies. And if you can act the same way, you will rid yourself of all suffering. For surely if you are not preoccupied with the body that encloses you, you will not trouble yourself about clothes, houses, fame, and other showy trappings."
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"One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at."
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"I had the classic 40 meltdown, I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness."
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"Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner."
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