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Mind Quotes
"Whatever you have in your mind, it always carries the potential to come into existence in the world of reality!"
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"There is no condition so miserable that thinking can't make it worse."
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"I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a hundred alternative routes present themselves. I choose one, no sooner begin, than a hundred more appear. Every time I try to narrow down my intent I expand it, and yet those straits and canals still lead me to the open sea, and then I realize how vast it all is, this matter of the mind. I am confounded by the shining water and the size of the world."
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"If the weather is summer in your mind, even the coldest winter will be hot for you! If the weather is winter in your mind, even the hottest summer will be cold for you!"
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"The mind is not the one that harasses you, it is the attachment-abhorrence that harasses you. It is because of the attachment-abhorrence that one has memory."
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"My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back."
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"It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent."
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"What I find predictable is crazy people's ability to predict that unpredictable people can be predicted by their consistent unpredictable behavior, thus making all crazy people predictable when the world says they are unpredictable. Therefore, I must be "right" because I can predict crazy because I have been trained in the unpredictable nature of consistent craziness because I am crazy."
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"It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person's brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing."
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"The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests."
Mind,
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"Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided."
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"If you think about something for long enough,' she explained, `more than likely, that thing will happen.' She tapped her head. `It's all in the mind."
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"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst."
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"It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world."
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"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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"If you relax your mind, it can begin working for you."
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"Like imagination, consciousness has no limits."
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"I didn't mind if they yelled at me, but when they came on the field, it was a different story."
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"That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although nothing had ever happened."
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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."
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"Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I'llunderstand myself right into the nearest mental asylum."
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"Focused awareness of the Self in one direction (upayog) is considered enlightened awareness (jagruti)."
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"When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the vrutis (tendencies of the chit) have no relationship. The tendencies arise later on, and then they go back and forth."
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"The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future."
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"How can you read and talk at the same time? I asked."Well, I usually can't, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging."
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"It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both."
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"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing."
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"You're as plain as the nose on your face, said Mr. Pennyworth. "And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your mind. Now. You are an empty alleyway. You are a vacant doorway. You are nothing. Eyes will not see you. Minds will not hold you. Where you are is nothing and nobody."
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"Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and their delusions are their own bible story. To break them free, is to break their faith in signs. That is why so many feel lost."
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"Who can go beyond the mind? The one who has conquered the mind."
"My thoughts are the dance of my consciousness on the stage of my mind."
"Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind."
"Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently."
"All of us share conscious recognition of our individual self. Each of us is more than a product of our conscious thoughts. The dictation of our unconscious mind also affects our behavior. The unconsciousness cogitates upon problems that are too harsh to submit to conscious resolution. The unconscious mind frequently directs us to take action that a rational, conscious mind would eschew. Resembling a two-sided coin, both our conscious and unconscious minds contribute to our thought processes. Collaborative thoughts lead to action, and repeated actions result in the development of behavior patterns, and ingrained behavior patterns lead to a sense of identity."
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