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Mind Quotes
"In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were designed and built to feel, and there is no thought, no state of mind, that is not also a feeling state.Nobody can feel too much, though many of us work very hard at feeling too little.Feeling is frightening."
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"I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource."
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"Your mind is a key, and whatever it unlocks, the greatest treasure of all."
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"It's not just the thought we think that matter; it's how we think them, how long we think them, and how often we think them. A thought has to be thought again and again in order for it to embed in our brains. So to fade a thought or get rid of it altogether, stop thinking it."
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"My experience is what I agree to attend to."
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"I wonder about people who say they haven't time to think. For myself, I can double think. I find that weighing vegetables, passing the time of day with customers, fighting or loving Mary, coping with the children-- none of these prevents a second and continuing layer of thinking, wondering, conjecturing. Surely this must be true of everyone. Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think."
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"If I can alter my perception of the reality, I can change the reality itself."
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"Remembering and ForgettingYou have not forgotten to remember, You have remembered to forget.But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember " and generally more practical."
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"You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that."
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"You see things You keep quiet about them. You understand."
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"Thoughts are supreme. It is driving the car we call life. So to reach the deserved destination think right."
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"If you remain in the mind, you remain in misery. Transcend it."
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"Sorel's basic character flaws had all cemented by the age of fifteen, a fact which further elicited my sympathy. To have all the building blocks of your life in place by that age was, by any standard, a tragedy. It was as good as sealing yourself into a dungeon. Walled in, with nowhere to go but your own doom. Walls. A world completely surrounded by walls."
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"When you look at the external reality, you may assume you know everything, but when you close your eyes and try to look into the darkness of your internal reality, all the knowledge of the external life fails to create a way out of the darkness."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
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"Worn old shoes need a good cobbler to be repaired; but worn old thoughts, only a rubbish bin!"
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"You have to think before you can feel. You have to conceive before you can perceive."
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"The unfamiliarity of the subconscious mind can turn one into one's worst enemy of happiness and success."
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"Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance arms us with terrible freedom so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge yet not the details but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful manly part or a poor drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions they have a substantial truth."
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"My thoughts are limitless. Social conditioning creates the limits. I like to overtake those and like to go where my thoughts take me."
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"It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care."
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"It is in the nature of the human mind to give in, and hold on, to the source of solace with all the might it can muster. Life is hard and any figure that tends to ease the subjective perception of that hardship, attains a high pedestal of utmost reverence in the realm of the individual mind. It all takes place at a molecular level in the human brain with the purpose of self-preservation."
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"The worldly life remains [and is not ending and one is not going to moksha] due to the pollution of the mind [bad mind/bad thoughts] and not due to the pollution of the body."
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"Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever."
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"Mind is the Alpha " Mind is the Omega."
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"The intellect perpetuates the worldly life."
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"Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes."
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"The human mind is the principal agent of creation. How we think is the prism for how we perceive reality."
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"You can't wear your brain out by overusing it."
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"People's mind becomes their boss and torments them. So what would become of the one who believes he can be the boss [control] of the mind of others?"
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"Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!"
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"She knew enough to recognize that memories were crowding in, and there was nothing he could do. They wouldn't let him speak. She would never know what scenes were driving that turmoil."
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