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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
- Will Durant (commonly attributed to Aristotle)
From the way most people live,
one would never guess that humans are beings of free will.
Repetition can be a choice, but often it isn't.
The athlete or pianist who practices the same routine
day after day, year after year, has their eye on a goal.
The unending repetition is a conscious choice
in the pursuit of a life dream.
But what about the sameness of most lives?
Observe the morning commute, the after-work drink,
the Sunday football game or religious service -
how many of those people are consciously following their dream,
training their mind, body, and spirit through that daily repetition?
And how many are mindlessly slogging through each day
out of habit and boredom?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
During his training, a baseball player strives
to make each swing better than the last.
The repetition of a faulty swing would be worse than useless.
It would ingrain bad habits.
The same is true of emotional responses.
If we allow ourselves to continue to have the same angry responses,
we just entrench our anger habit.
But if we strive - through consciousness, visualization, and coaching -
to moderate our anger response,
over time, we can train ourselves to respond
to events as we choose - without anger.
You can't magically be free from anger tomorrow,
but you can put yourself on your own training program
that will reduce the frequency and intensity
of your anger response day by day, year by year.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Most people think that anger is an instinctive response,
and that some people were just born with the temperament
to get angrier faster than others.
That statement is only half right.
Anger is an instinctive response.
We respond to an affront with anger essentially instantaneously -
much too quickly for conscious thought to be called upon.
But the instinct of the anger response
can be trained through conscious repetition,
visualization, and coaching.
Visualization is seeing the event
we desire to master in our mind's eye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles.
Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge,
it repeats the same knowledge,
it goes on chewing the same knowledge again and again.
No-mind is clarity, purity, innocence.
No-mind is the real way to live,
the real way to know, the real way to be.
- Osho
I got a good mind to join a club
and beat you over the head with it.
- the Groucho Marx movie Duck Soup
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
Now, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you could lower your wand.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Just once in a while, let us exalt
the importance of ideas and information.
- Edward R. Murrow
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
The natural cause of the human mind
is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
- Thomas Jefferson
Iron rusts from disuse;
water loses its purity from stagnation...
even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands:
not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.
- Colin Wilson
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick
Today, I am Sending My Monkey Mind to the Zoo.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother
why the bride changed her mind.
What do you mean? responded her mother.
Well, she went down the aisle with one man,
and came back with another.
- Anonymous
God Loves an Open Mind, Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
So does Your Mother.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along
and trying to put things in it.
- Terry Pratchett
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life does not consist mainly,
or even largely, of facts or happenings.
It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts
that is forever flowing through one's head.
- Mark Twain
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
- Lao Tzu
The moment we want to believe something,
we suddenly see all the arguments for it,
and become blind to the arguments against it.
- George Bernard Shaw
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
- Publilius Syrus
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
but by making the darkness conscious.
- Carl Jung
Beware the Rattlesnake of the Mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
The moment a person forms a theory,
his imagination sees in every object
only the traits which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson
Bringing a childlike wonder
and a beginner's mind to life
maximizes both success and joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resistance creates suffering.
Stress happens when your mind resists what is.
The only problem in your life
is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
- Dan Millman
Dare to be naive.
- Buckminster Fuller
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect,
but of all human contemplations,
the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
Doubt and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination,
which the steadfast heart will conquer,
and the large mind will transcend.
- Helen Keller
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a state of mind.
- Anonymous
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body
treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
- Peter Medawar
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The pendulum of the mind alternates
between sense and nonsense,
not between right and wrong.
- Carl Jung
Every mind must make its choice
between truth and repose.
It cannot have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most dangerous phrase in the language is,
"We've always done it this way."
- Grace Hopper
No problem can be solved from the same level
of consciousness that created it.
- Albert Einstein
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Few is the number of those
who think with their own mind
and feel with their own heart.
- Albert Einstein
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous
than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
As selfishness and complaint
pervert and cloud the mind,
so love with its joy
clears and sharpens the vision.
- Helen Keller
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers
of acting and reasoning as fear.
- Edmund Burke
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
- Jonas Salk
Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein
Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as
your own unguarded thoughts.
- The Buddha
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life
is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
The highest possible stage in moral culture
is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Approach life with an Open Mind,
Clean Hands, and a Loving Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Open your mind, open your heart,
and the way to joy becomes clear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
- Mencius
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill
Maintain a balance between skepticism and faith.
Maintain a beginner mind. Be open to possibility.
Don't give in to skepticism,
but don't give in to fantasy either.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Learning never exhausts the mind.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Mind what people do, not only what they say,
for deeds will betray a lie.
- Terry Goodkind
The willow which bends to the tempest,
often escapes better than the oak which resists it;
and so in great calamities,
it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits
recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner
than those of a loftier character.
- Albert Schweitzer
I CHOOSE with Open Mind and Open Heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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