"Age doesn't matter. An open mind does."
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"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable."
"The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable."
"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."
"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."
"A multitude of books distracts the 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."
"I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are."
"The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master."
"Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else."
"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."
"Is there no way out of the mind?"
"Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless."
"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."
"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."
"It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man."
"Whatever a person frequently thinks and reflects on, that will become the inclination of their mind."
"When faced with the vicissitudes of life, one's mind remains unshaken, sorrow-less, stainless, secure; this is the greatest welfare"
"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."
"Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind."