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Mind Quotes
"How, when and what you perceive - defines your life!"
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"Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation - ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids."
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"What are you addicted to: being thankful for your blessings or moaning about your problems?"
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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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"If people think they can 'do meditation, then they become frustrated every time they don't achieve the state. In the same way that making more of an effort to fall asleep - trying to force yourself to sleep - often backfires, the meditative state becomes more elusive the more you try. On the other hand, if people understand that meditation is a state, then their only job is to create the right circumstances. They focus on what they can do - relax, sit still, concentrate - and then sometimes the state comes, while sometimes it does not. Either one is fine."
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"If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction."
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"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."
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"Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes."
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"Mountains which block your way are mostly created by your own wrong thinking!"
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"In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it."
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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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"Isn't it strange that it took so long to realize that all you needed to change was your attitude."
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"Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of parts even that of disinterestedness."
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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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"Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is, it is anticipating how it will be perceived."
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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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"It's okay to remember, but it's also okay to forget too."
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"To see in the dark, close your eyes."
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"You do not have a mind belongs to yourself! Your thoughts are the thoughts of your culture! When you speak, it is not you but your culture, your religion, your traditions, your political or spiritual leaders speak! If not you but your culture, your religion etc. are speaking on behalf of you, then what are you, who are you? A stupid puppet? Get a mind which belongs to yourself! Only then you will be able to speak with your own thoughts on behalf of your own self!"
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"All endeavors, heroic or monstrous, scientific or philosophical, rise from the electrochemical functioning of the mind, that takes place relentlessly in the little specks of protoplasm inside the head. These specks of jelly inside the brain, known as the neurons, determine our identity, personality and everything that we are."
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"Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I sometimes feel that it's too vivid, if you know what I mean. And when I start having thoughts like this, the more I think about it, the less I can tell how much of the vividness is real and how much of it my imagination has invented."
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"Your mind is a key, and whatever it unlocks, the greatest treasure of all."
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"The mind has no archetype. It is an ever-changing ever-evolving paradigm."
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"Thoughts are the product of a machine we call the human mind. So manufacture some excellent thoughts."
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"Free your mind of that which you have no control. It is not only good to do so for your mental, but your overall health. Some people must learn from experience. You can convey knowledge to them and offer to show them the way. But, that doesn't mean your wisdom will be accepted or appreciated."
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"He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the distance, gradually speeding up, growing smaller until it was, finally, sucked into the depths of night, where it disappeared. All that remained was the sound of the wind slipping through a stand of white birch trees."
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"Our minds are lazier than our bodies."
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"Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: When you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!"
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"Delusions are hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding insane people living in a backwards world."
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"He got up slowly, not bothering to curse himself for forgetting the stop where he had to disembark. He was not used to leaving things behind; he wondered how the bus stop escaped."
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"Within the madness of my subliminal mind often brilliant thoughts are aligned."
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