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"Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal Thought. The Marvelous is at the root of the mind."
"Britney Spears can't hold a conversation. (mind controlled) The ultimate meltdown was Britney Spears. But she (Spears) can't hold a conversation. No. They have someone who feeds her what she is supposed to say. Like she can't hold a conversation."
"I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with a clean page, a new theme, and a mind awake."
"Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information."
"The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone."
"The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind."
"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."
"All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind."
"Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both."
"Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self."
"You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling."
"When the heart is open, it's easier for the mind to be turned toward God."
"Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist."
"To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative."
"Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind."
"The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system."
"The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable."
"I like to have space to spread my mind out in."
"The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl."
"All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."
