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"Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu."
"Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind"
"Your greatest weapon is your enemy's mind"
"I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything."
"Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world."
"Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind."
"The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing."
"Life's no piece of cake, mind you, but the recipe's my own to fool with."
"As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing."
"Nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds talents and abilities of which we are not aware."
"Ideally, when Christians meet, as Christians do, to take counsel together, their purpose is not ( or should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the Holy Spirit - something which may be quite different."
"I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things."
"The ‘absorbent mind’ welcomes everything, puts its hope in everything, accepts poverty equally with wealth, adopts any religion and the prejudices and habits of its countrymen, incarnating all in itself. This is the child!"
"Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it."
"Wisdom is not a question of learning facts with the mind; it can only be acquired through perfection of living."
"He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written."
"The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything."
"The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous."
"The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc."
"Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state."
