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Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them ...

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What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that's one thing about intellectuals, they've ...

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There is a difference between being remembered and being caught by the mesh of one's mind.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting ch...

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The Spirit Tower has its guardian, but unless it understands who its guardian is, it cannot be guard...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

I read for the 'ah-ha's,' the information that makes a light bulb go off in my mind. I want to put i...

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For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in a...

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Zora Neale HurstonTheir Eyes Were Watching God

The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgett...

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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one m...

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

And yet, protest it if we will,Some corner of the mind retainsThe medieval man, who stillKeeps watch...

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God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

You want to buy cars and houses and castles, all of that's on you and how America has systematized y...

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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your a...

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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through...

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The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his ...

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Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certai...

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I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know i...

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Alan SillitoeThe Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that...

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Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, a...

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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither t...

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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got th...

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My religiosity consists of a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit who reveals himself...

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It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man'...

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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-call...

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

What we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands a...

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To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve o...

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Aldous HuxleyThe Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of educat...

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I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do ...

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'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in ...

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I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memo...

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What this power is I cannot say all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a ma...

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Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion...

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The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized as the sense of incom...

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I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career...

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Happiness is not a matter of events it depends upon the tides of the mind.

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for peopl...

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There are two types of seeds in the mind: those that create anger, fear, frustration, jealousy, hatr...

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When life is foggy, path is unclear and mind is dull, remember your breath. It has the power to give...

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Mindfulness is not the path of chasing. It is the path of beautification. When flowers blossom, the ...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awarenes...

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Mind is like a net, drawn by the needles of past and future. Mindfulness is the way for not getting ...

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Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.

Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air,new lights and new truths to enter.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

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Amit RayYoga The Science of Well-Being

Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.

If the newspapers begin to publish stories about wars, and the people begin to think and talk of war...

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I wish I'd been better able to resist the sense of obligation to write some of the poems I did. It's...

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We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someon...

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It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care abou...

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Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mi...

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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it ex...

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I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than de...

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The human mind adjusts itself to a certain point of view, and those who have regarded nature from on...

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Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done.

It is not rational, never mind 'appropriate,' to impose billions of dollars in economic costs in ret...

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The perversion of the mind is only possible when those who should be heard in its defence are silent...

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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insens...

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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind nex...

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Tis the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

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AristotleThe Philosophy of Aristotle

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its fo...

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Of course he seems to have quite a mind of his own and that is probably where he is weakest.

...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Let us say that you might have become a telepathic cancer, a malignant mentality which in its inevit...

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The person one loves never really exists, but is a projection focused through the lens of the mind o...

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Arthur C. ClarkeTales from Planet Earth

(...) My mind is like a racing engine, tearing itself to pieces because it is not connected up with ...

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My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, ...

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My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse ...

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It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has its...

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can se...

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Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divi...

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The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

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To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret...

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Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a m...

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Man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes...

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Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

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Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the sour...

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The anti-mind is the anti-life.

A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values t...

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A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to prot...

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A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Righ...

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Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. ...

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There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All...

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To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent t...

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That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ i...

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