Anandamayi Ma Quotes
When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.
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We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.
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Being a conservative has given me clarity; it's given me freedom - my mind is free; therefore, my heart is lighter. And that's a gift from God that I believe we have an obligation to share with others.
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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
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In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.
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I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.
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When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.
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Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.
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For the poet, the imagination is paramount, and . . . he dwells apart in his imagination, as the philosopher dwells in his reason, and as the priest dwells in his belief … The imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things.'
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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
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Nature is full of infinite causes which were never set forth in experience.
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The sentiment of to-day is social and philanthropic. ... but we must forever bear in mind that sentiment is subjective, and a personal thing. However exalted and however ardent, it cannot be accepted as a scale for justice, or as a test for truth.
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And bear unmov'd the wrongs of base mankind, The last, and hardest, conquest of the mind.
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Getting bored is not allowed.
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No one deserves anything from you. No one deserves your trust or your love—they have to earn it.
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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
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Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.
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When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.
