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"The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine."
"A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does.""
"The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people."
"You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your mind. What do you need to let go of? Take a deep breath, relax, and say to yourself, 'I am willing to let go. I release. I let go. I release all tension. I release all fear. I release all anger. I release all guilt. I release all sadness. I let go of all old limitations. I let go, and I am at peace. I am at peace with myself. I am at peace with the process of life. I am safe.'"
"The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire."
"From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important."
"Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal."
"Don't judge or analyze what you observe. Watch the thought, feel the emotion, observe the reaction. Don't make a personal problem out of them. You will then feel something more powerful than any of those things that you observe: the still, observing presence itself behind the content of your mind, the silent watcher."
"Tragedy turns into comedy when you watch your own drama and realizing it as a mind-created fiction designed to create you a sense of identity."
"Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind."
"So the single most vital step on your journey towards enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind."
"Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind."
"As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies."
"When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state."
"She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind."
"I can move objects with my mind, if I use my hands."
"I’ve worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it’s awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are."
"I'm not my thoughts, I'm the thinker who has those thoughts."
"The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow."
"Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice."
