The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

I love my neighbor as myself,
Myself like him too, by his leave,
Nor to his pleasure, read more

I love my neighbor as myself,
Myself like him too, by his leave,
Nor to his pleasure, power or pelf
Came I to crouch, as I conceive.
Dame Nature doubtless has designed
A man the monarch of his mind.

All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

All the things that truly matter beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace arise from beyond the mind.

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In read more

In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can
not exist.
[Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non
potest.]

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

A good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores read more

The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those
of the body.
[Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.