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Mind Quotes
"Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.And mind can only see things that already written in heart."
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"It was as if the body disdained memory... or refused the responsibility of it."
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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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"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."
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"It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it."
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"Your body travels sometimes to somewhere but your mind travels every time to everywhere!"
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"As soon as we are alone,...inner chaos opens up in us. This chaos can be so disturbing and so confusing that we can hardly wait to get busy again. Entering a private room and shutting the door, therefore, does not mean that we immediatel;y shut ou all our iner doubts, anxieities, fears, bad memories, unresolved conflicts, angry feelings and impulsive desires. On the contrary, when we have removed our outer distraction, we often find that our inner distraction manifest themselves to us in full force. We often use the outer distractions to shield ourselves from the interior noises. This makes the discipline of solitude all the more important."
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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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"There is no condition so miserable that thinking can't make it worse."
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"The mind is so powerful that is can suddenly grow wings of imagination and fly in the open sky."
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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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"It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent."
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"Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satisfied, voices that may drown out the faint sounds emitted by our souls and distract us from the careful, arduous task of accurately naming our priorities."
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"If one could amputate part of one's consciousness..."
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"Thinking is an exercise of an imaginative mind to empower dreams and desires."
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"If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources."
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"The brain is a material thing, something you can hold in your hands. The mind is an immaterial thing, something only the Universe can hold."
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"Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror."
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"It was only later, replaying the scene in her mind again and again, that she began to believe it was the expression of a man who was methodically unplugging himself from reality, one cord at a time. The face of a man who was heading out of the blue and into the black."
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"If you repeat your negative memories in your mind and feel self - pity, then YOU are both the abuser and the victim - not those who wronged you in the past. Your present and future will be happier if you take control of your thoughts."
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"Mind makes you happy, mind makes you unhappy. When you are unhappy, the solution is there, in your mind, not in somewhere else!"
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"Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant."
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"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."
Mind,
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"If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don't have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target!"
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"When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!"
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"Writing, painting, singing- it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives."
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"For the contented minds, lakes are oceans!"
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"Mechanics of Mind: Remember the nature of the mind - Mind is never where you are, it is always somewhere else!"
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"He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts. He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new."
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"But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted through him like snowflakes falling from a calm winter's sky."
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"You have to think before you can feel. You have to conceive before you can perceive."
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"Know this Mr. Davis. I am not crazy. I am not sane. I am not alive. I am not dead. I am not even the human being who you call Dr. Vigo Andersen. I was never born and I will never die. I am an eternal being. I am that I am. This, what you call reality, is just a collective dream. I was about to wake up from it permanently when I was yanked back into this temporal space. I did not try to kill myself. I tried to wake up."
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