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Seth Musician
Mind

"Your intent to find a mate sends out 'strands of consciousness' however, composed of desire and intent. Like detectives, these search the world, looking in a completely different way than a physical sleuth. The world is probed with your characteristics in mind, seeking for someone else with characteristics that will best suit your own."

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Richard P. Feynman Physicist
Mind

"I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine."

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
Mind

"When you move with this thought that 'I want', then the mind wanders. When you move with this thought that 'I have received', then you are content."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Mind

"Look here — we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you."

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Mahatma Gandhi Political Leader
Mind

"The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses."

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Laozi Philosopher
Mind

"Knowing constancy, the mind is open. With an open mind, you will be openhearted. Being openhearted you will act royally. Being royal, you will attain the divine. Being divine, you will be at one with the Tao. Being at one with the Tao is eternal. Though the body dies, the Tao will never pass away."

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Gautama Buddha Spiritual Teacher
Mind

"It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man."

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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
Mind

"It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity."

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