Mind Quotes
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I have been truly blessed with the ability to compartmentalize the many competing agendas in my mind. Because of this I can shut it off and enjoy the moment.
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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
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The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
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There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
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To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.
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True hope is based on energy of character. A strong mind always hopes!!
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When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.
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I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body doesn't always respond.
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The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.
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Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
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If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease
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Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.
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One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.
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In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.
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They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.
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In so far as the mind sees things in their eternal aspect, it participates in eternity.
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Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.
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A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.
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Ideas exist in our minds that can be accounted for by no established laws.
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We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.
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No matter what happens in a child's home, no matter what other social and economic factors may impede a child, there's no question in my mind that a first-rate school can transform almost everything.
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I have changed my mind. You can help cook by standing in a corner and not touching anything. Do it carefully. -Nick to Jamie
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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.
