Aphorisms - Brain/Mind

Mind is busy. It hates the state of detachment or rest without an occupying interest because then its mastery is threatened. When mind encounters this it feels loneliness, restlessness, discontent. It rushes for a book, the TV set or someone to talk to. You have to endure this state in mind to realise being.


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The active mind is the only enemy. Its function, its purpose is to keep you from the truth.

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You have to refuse your mind the satisfaction and comfort of doubt.

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When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by stillness.

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When you know yourself you know all minds. Man thinks there is individuality of mind, but there is not.

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The intellect we use is not individual. Nor is it the exclusive property of man. All the species use the same intellect although with varying degrees of intelligence.

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Just as there is only one mind so there is only one common intellect used by all intelligences in the universe: one universe, one intellect.

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You don't have to concern yourself with renouncing anything, visiting another country or retreating into a forest. Man's mind is where he is and that is where he must master it.

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There is no love in the brain, man and woman, only fear of it and doubt.

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The brain can make anything but love.

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You hear the beauty or truth of birdsong with your senses/ psyche – and name the kind of bird with your brain.

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The mind lives off excitement or depression, it doesn't matter which.

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It is the mind that cries out for peace from itself.

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The brain instead of just looking after our physical survival, now fights for our emotional survival.

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The clever Western mind is your only burden. It's amazing isn't it? The thing that landed man on the moon is your only burden.

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Therapies have nothing to do with the spirit, therapies are for the satisfaction of the brain.

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