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The human mind is like a TV set. When it goes blank, its a good idea to turn off the sound. – Anon.

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain. – Proverb

I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Your mind is what makes everything else work. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance. – Aesop

Mind is the Master–power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills–He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass. – James Allen

If you dont control your mind, someone else will. – John Allston

I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon theyll forget my number. – Edith Armstrong

The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. – W. H. Auden

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. – Meher Baba

What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind. – Walter Bagehot

Brains arent designed to get result; they go in directions. If you know how the brain works you can set your own directions. If you dont, then someone else will. – Richard Bandler

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. – Thomas A. Bennett

If we were to ask the brain how it would like to be treated, whether shaken at a random, irregular rate, or in a rhythmic, harmonious fashion, we can be sure that the brain, or for that matter the whole body, would prefer the latter. – Itzhak Bentov

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. – Henri Bergson

He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle… with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination. – Aneurin Bevan

When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. – Bhagavad Gita

The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy? – Bhagavad Gita

He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion. – Bhagavad Gita

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self. – Bhagavad Gita