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Mind Quotes
"The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one's eyes without seeing anything."
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"In his article, Bogen concluded: "I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a host of detail to be marshaled in this case. But we must eventually confront directly the principal resistance to the Wigan view: that is, the subjective feeling possessed by each of us that we are One. This inner conviction of Oneness is a most cherished opinion of Western Man."
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"It was as if the body disdained memory... or refused the responsibility of it."
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"A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism."
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"Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist."
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"Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand."
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"Allie noticed it all, every sound, every thought. Her senses had come alive, invigorating her, and she felt her mind drifting through the last few weeks."
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"It is terrifying, said Adrian. "And weird, for lack of a better word. And part of you knows well, part of you knows something's not right. That your thinking's not right. But what do you about that? All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind, what can you trust? What other people tell you?"
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"I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it."
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"The highest activities of consciousness have their origins in physical occurrences of the brain just as the loveliest melodies are not too sublime to be expressed by notes."
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"You never give such relationships a thought, To give a thought, to take a thought is a function of dissociation, distance. You can't exercise memory until you've removed yourself from memory's source."
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"There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save."
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"If you want to go to a far and difficult place, firstly send your mind to that far place, then your mind will meet with your body over there!"
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"There are infinite ways for your mind to torture it's self."
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"Our true appearance is our mind's appearance; whatever our mind's visage is, that is our real visage! Thus, whenever you meet a person, concentrate on his mind to see his real look, try to understand his mind because his mind is his real face!"
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"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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"What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included."
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"Isn't it strange that it took so long to realize that all you needed to change was your attitude."
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"Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you, then create within your reality the things that you desire."
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"Your skull encloses your brains. But never forget that anytime you open your mouth to talk, you have opened your mind for the entire world to see what is hidden in there!"
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"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."
Mind,
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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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"The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual."
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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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"The human brain creates everything that you are."
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"Mind is indeed that which takes one to Moksha, and it is also the mind that makes one wander around in the worldly life. One needs to just turn it in the right direction. It had been turned in the wrong direction, and so it needs to be turned in the right direction."
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"Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear."
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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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"Imaginary (thinking) leads to bliss of the mind and the true (real thinking) leads to bliss of the Self (Soul)."
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"You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go."
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"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out."
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"Focused awareness of the Self in one direction (upayog) is considered enlightened awareness (jagruti)."
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"To see in the dark, close your eyes."
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