The mind confines our outlooks to a mere bundles of desires, pleasures, prejudices, and fears to safeguard the body it inhabits.

By way of watching your mind, you will see life beyond a mere set of habits, emotions and beliefs.

Realizing your true self apart from the mind-created ego self is profoundly liberating, and when you do, suddenly the universe appears immensely blissful.

The act of accumulating knowledge about the transcendent concepts and the ability to actually experience the inner essence that these concepts signify are two very different things.

Our bodies are the quanta and our minds are the qualia - together they form a physical entity capable of interaction with many forms in the universe.

Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.

Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.

The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.

I am an honest girl, M. le Vicomte de Chagny, and I don't lock myself up in my dressing-room with men's voices.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.

An achilles, if it doesn't heal right, there could be a danger of not playing again.