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• It is important to understand that counterproducti ve actions of body, speech and mind do not arise of their own accord, but spring up in dependence on our motivation. Faulty states of mind give rise to faulty actions. To control negative physical and verbal actions, we need to tame our minds.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Spring, Giving

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• Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Christmas, Xmas, Mind

  "Bill O'Reilly: The War on Christmas: The big picture" by Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. November 29, 2012.

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• The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Heart, Essence, Practice

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• Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible.

  Henry Ford

  Thinking, Numbers, Mind

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.59, 谷月社

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• Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

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• Enlightenment is the ability to freely transact within the ten thousand states of mind without a continuous self or awareness

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Mind, Enlightenment

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• It is possible to move to an enlightened state of mind from a lower bardo or level of awareness. It can happen, but it is extremely unlikely.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Enlightenment doesn't simply mean being in heavenly states of mind. It doesn't mean being a saint.

  Frederick Lenz

  Mean, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Once you have mastered the ten thousand states of mind, it's paranirvana, the absorption into the stillness forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Forever, Mind, Enlightenment

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• Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Reality, People

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• I'd say that golf is about 75% mental. If your state of mind gets out of kilter, you're worse off than a tomcat floating on a log.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Mind, Floating

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• I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind

  Nas

  New York, Mind, States

  Song: N.Y. State of Mind, Album: Illmatic, 1994

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• The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort of homely routine.That is ,by the way, why most prison memoirs are unreadable.The difficulty of conveying to the reader an idea of a nightmare world from which he has emerged makes the author depict the prisoner's state of mind as an uninterruped continuity of despair.He fears to appear frivolous or to spoil his effect by admitting that even in the depths of misery cheerfulness keeps breaking in.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

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• If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.

  Karen Armstrong

  Art, Our World, Self

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• I am fond of reminding my yoga students of the saying "It takes one to know one" when they become lost I condemnation and judgment of others. The world that we perceive is a reflection of our own states of mind and reveals our own level of consciousness. The world is little more than a Rorschach blot in which we see our own desire systems projected. We see what we want to see. (116)

  Prem Prakash

  Yoga, Reflection, Mind

  Prem Prakash (1998). “The Yoga of Spiritual Devotion: A Modern Translation of the Narada Bhakti Sutras”, p.103, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.

  Jean-Pierre Rives

  Mind, Firsts, Spirit

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• Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Jobs, People, Entrepreneur

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• My body mirrors my state of mind. I am healthy, whole and complete

  Louise Hay

  Mirrors, Healthy, Mind

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• homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Missing Someone, Always Trying, Long

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Like squirrels, the best in every business do what they have learned to do without questioning their abilities - they flat out trust their skills, which is why we call this high-performance state of mind the "Trusting Mindset."

  John Eliot

  Business, Skills, Squirrels

  John Eliot, PhD (2015). “Overachievement: The Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, p.26, Diversion Books

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• In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

  Pico Iyer

  Easter, Past, Islands

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• My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

  Eric Clapton

  Two, Musical, Mind

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• To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.

  John Dos Passos

  Fighting, Thoughtful, Thinking

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• I am surprised you shd. say fancy and aesthetic tastes have led me to my present state of mind: these wd. be better satisfied in the Church of England, for bad taste is always meeting one in the accessories of Catholicism.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Mind, Church, Accessories

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• I suppose home is, for me, more of a state of mind. It's really more of about being where I want to be with people I care about.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Home, People, Mind

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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