Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Mind Quotes

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet.

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Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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This is deathless: the liberation of the mind through lack of clinging.

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Can you step back from your own mind and thus understand all things?

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We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses.

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Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study.

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Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .

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If the mind be fixed on the acquirement of any object, that object will be attained.

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Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

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That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great.

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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

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The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die.

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Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

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In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind.

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America makes up its own mind about what it wants to see.

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In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

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Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

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Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.

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But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.

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