"God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone."
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"Your first great duties, you are sensible, are those you owe to Heaven, to your Creator and Redeemer. Let these be ever present to your minds, and exemplified in your lives and conduct."
"We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body."
"But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance."
"The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this."
"When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind."
"When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes."
"The desire for fame tempts even noble minds."
"Things in which we do not take joy are either a burden upon our minds to be got rid of at any cost; or they are useful, and therefore in temporary and partial relation to us, becoming burdensome when their utility is lost; or they are like wandering vagabonds, loitering for a moment on the outskirts of our recognition, and then passing on. A thing is only completely our own when it is a thing of joy to us."
"You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind."
"Tolerance means to fix our mind, to fix our words, & our actions on a higher principle."
"When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning."
"I don't think too much about the future. Not because I'm hiding my head in the sand but because I figured out that whatever the future was going to be, the thing I had to do was to quiet my mind and open my heart and do what I could to end suffering."
"Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart."
"Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation."
"That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge."
"Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity."
"If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way."
"What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy."
"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction."