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"Sometimes we set boundaries for ourselves in life, or even worse, we allow others to do so. In many cases, these boundaries are just in our mind and need to be pushed away."
"The most important rule: Do not, I repeat, do not censor yourself in any way. Leave your editorial mind out of the loop. Just let the ideas come pouring out in any way, shape, or form they want to. Do not judge anything."
"It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation."
"I’m lookin in the mirror & I see a dollar sign, I had a cat scan & I had money on my mind"
"A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind."
"Definite speech means clarity of mind."
"It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it."
"It's just so bizarre how in this world if you have asthma, you take asthma medication. If you have diabetes, you take diabetes medication. But as soon as you have to take medicine for your mind, it's such a stigma behind it."
"Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise."
"When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind."
"Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness."
"One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do."
"But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!"
"Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind."
"Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well."
"I tell you the truth, any object you have in your mind, however good, will be a barrier between you and the inmost Truth."
"If you put your mind to doing whatever it is you want to do, good things can happen."
"Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind."
"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then."
"The story of the subconscious mind can be told in three words: there is none."
