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"The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question; as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. No sympathy for the devil; keep that in mind."
"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."
"...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation."
"They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out."
"Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you."
"If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?"
"Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind."
"Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance."
"In the unawakened state you don't use thought, but thought uses you. You are, one could almost say, possessed by thought, which is the collective conditioning of the human mind that goes back many thousands of years. You don't see anything as it is, but distorted and reduced by mental labels, concepts, judgments, opinions and reactive patterns."
"When your consciousness is directed outward, mind and world arise. When it is directed inward, it realises its own Source and returns home into the Unmanifested."
"Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life."
"My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly."
"It is not time that changes man nor knowledge the only thing that can change someone's mind is love."
"If we want to find God, we have to look within, into the realm of deep mind-a realm that science has yet to explore."
"Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance."
"A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief."
"Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression."
"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."
"Whatever the mind holds to and firmly believes in, forms a new pattern of though within its creative mold, as whatever thought is held in the mind tends to take outward form in new creations."
"Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers."
