"To downgrade the human mind is bad theology."
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"My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity."
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"I do not make any clear distinction between mind and God. God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension."
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"The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds."
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"All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind."
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"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language"
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"Whatever I believed, I did; I did with my whole heart and mind as far as possible to do so."
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"Follow the wandering, the distraction, find out why the mind has wandered; pursue it, go into it fully. When the distraction is completely understood, then that particular distraction is gone. When another comes, pursue it also."
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"Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind."
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"The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy."
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"Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens."
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"All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts."
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"God is an intelligible sphere-a sphere known to mind, not to the senses-whose center is everywhere and whose circumference nowhere."
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"The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings."
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"Remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind."
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"People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless."
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"By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different things that I was forgetting the main thing I came about. This demon must be an honest fellow and a good Christian, said Sancho; for if he wasn't he wouldn't swear by God and his conscience; I feel sure now there must be good souls even in hell itself."
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"The seeing is instant. The recognition can be instant but it will take some time to stabilize the mind into the heart completely."
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"All the mind-streams eventually flow into the One ocean Beingness. There are many pathways for the mind; there are no paths for the Heart, for the Heart is infinite and fills everything."
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"Television, radio, and all the sources of amusement and information that surround us in our daily lives are also artificial props. They can give us the impression that our minds are active, because we are required to react to stimuli from the outside. But the power of those external stimuli to keep us going is limited. They are like drugs. We grow used to them, and we continuously need more and more of them. Eventually, they have little or no effect. Then, if we lack resources within ourselves, we cease to grow intellectually, morally, and spiritually. And we we cease to grow, we begin to die."
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