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"The mind is not a hermit's cell, but a place of hospitality and intercourse."
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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."
"He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution."
"The thoughts that occur to me while I'm running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky."
"Thought for the day: we have far too many of them. And we prize them too highly; more so than we do the power of silence, mindfulness and pure kindness."
"Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you, then create within your reality the things that you desire."
"The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind!"
"Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts."
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"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."
"Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction."
"We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot."
"There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time."
"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."
"The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self."
"Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture."
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