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"Or... maybe I'm not going crazy. "Maybe I'm some sort of android-cyborg-clone-thing, and I'm just breaking down. I'm not sure which way is worse. Dad laughs. "You're not in your right mind, dear," he says. "No, no, no, you're not." And then-- --Silence. Dad fades away. The reverie chair disappears. There's just blackness. I remember then that I am in the reverie of something dead. Whatever that thing was, it was dead. And, just as I'm starting to wonder if, perhaps, I have died, too, I see a light, far away in the corner of the dreamscape. The light isn't soft; it's not glowing. It crackles like silent lightning, burning with electricity, sparks flying out and fizzling in the dark. I don't know why--it makes no sense, the way dreams often don't--but I want to touch the light. So I do."
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mind
silence
light
breaking-down
dreamscape
reverie
blackness
dead
crazy
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Beth Revis |
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Man is a dubious mixture of mind and matter; since the mind unlocks recognition of the eternal to him, while matter pulls him down and binds him to the transitory, he should strive away from the senses and toward the mind if he wishes to elevate his life and give it meaning.
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mind
philosophy
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Hermann Hesse |
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But always, at moments when his mind was like a blind octopus, squirming in an agony of knife-cuts, she would drop in that accusation.
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mind
no-more-parades
parade-s-end
octopus
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Ford Madox Ford |
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Understand something people, we will be hated by many in the name of Christ, ridiculed, mocked, stoned, slaughtered. We will be fined, jailed and killed for our love for Christ. You are supposed to see better with your eyes today, how close this is happening, just prepare your heart and soul to be braver than Peter and not deny Christ in the moment your life might be in jeopardy for Him and what you believe. Apostle Pauls says to live is Christ to die is gain.
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money
words
time
pain
love-quotes
literature
marriage
mind
grief
feminism
loss
history
reading
prayer
nature
world
depression
people
women
freedom
dream
joy
future
politics
friends
leadership
quote
work
inspirational-quotes
life-quotes
living
motivation
family
destiny
imagination
fantasy
dreams
sadness
positive-thinking
strength
music
friendship
motivational
spiritual
heart
endtime
fiction-food-for-though
humanity-humour
intelligence-is-attractive
life-and-living-life-philosophy
magic-spirit
meditation-men
passion-peace
patience-johnson
pentecost
reality-relationship
trust-war
earning
motivational-quotes
repentance
wisdom-quotes
society
purpose
quotes
forgiveness
self-improvement
power
self-help
soul
patience
psychology
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Patience Johnson |
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It was something, what must go through men's mind where women were concerned, to cause them to behave so strangely.
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mind
men
women
concerned
mens-mind
strange-behaviour
behaviour
something
strange
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Larry McMurtry |
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..moments of transport, and of comfort, and of a bracing vastness of possibility. That was all there for me sometimes when I plunged my mind into the Bible's puzzles; and it was always there in the music of church. I wouldn't have said it this way then. But I would feel all the cells in my body as I sang hymns that connected my little life with the grandeur of the cosmos, the Christian drama across space and time. This was my earliest experience of breath and body, mind and spirit soaring together, alive to both mystery and reality, in kinship with others both familiar and unknown. That's one way I'd define the feeling of faith now.
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mind
spirit
faith
reality
music
love
on-being
hymns
pantheism
christian
church
mystery
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Krista Tippett |
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Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.
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pain
mind
scream
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James S.A. Corey |
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You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how. I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little meannesses and follies and faults that spoil so many women
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mind
gentlewoman
faults
manners
lady
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Louisa May Alcott |
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"Asked by a student for an example of infectious cultural junk that is hard to eradicate, I replied, "Well, it's like, when, like, you use a phrase which, like, isn't really, like, doing any serious work, but, like you go on, like, using it." To which the student replied, "I, like, understand the point, but I wanted, like, an example."
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mind
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Daniel C. Dennett |
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Go Home. Cut your losses. Stay. Go for it. You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy. All these voices waving their arms and screaming at one another.
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mind
humor
indecision
italy
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Jay McInerney |
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As the dreamscape around me grows clearer, I slip further away from it. The mind is a magical thing, I'm discovering. A dreamscape is made of thought and is wider than the sky, able to grow large enough to fit not just our own world, but every possibility and impossibility beyond it. Once I quit thinking of it as being forced into the laws of physics, it's easy to manipulate the dreamscape into anything I want. I don't know how I know all this, no more than I understand how I know things when I dream. I just do. I throw up my hand, and a wall rises between the orange grove and me. Behind the wall, I start creating the world I need in Representative Belles's mind.
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mind
dreamscape
reverie
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Beth Revis |
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The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.
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mind
submerged
elizabeth-wein
the-pearl-thief
julie
memory
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Elizabeth Wein |
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She sat still, I thought, and yet she traveled. And when one stitches, the mind travels, not the way men do, with ax and oxen through the wilderness, but surely our traveling counted too, as motion. And I thought of the patience of the stitches. Writing a book, I thought, which men often do, but women only rarely, has the posture of sewing. One hand leads, and the other hand helps. And books, like quilts, are made, one word at a time, one stitch at a time.
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mind
quilt
travels
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Sena Jeter Naslund |
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Cosmic consciousness is the next level of holistic perception.
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mind
inspirational-quotes
dan-rather
intuition-quotes
laurie-nadel
laurie-nadel-quotes
quote-about-life
quote-of-the-day
quote-of-the-week
quotes-twitter
wayne-dyer
intuition
perception
power-of-thoughts
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Laurie Nadel |
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How quickly bodies came to love each other, promise themselves to each other always, without asking permission. From the mind! If only she could give up her mind, let her heart swell, inflamed, her brain stepping out for whole days, whole seasons, her work shrinking to limericks.
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mind
heart
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Lorrie Moore |
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The most arduous part of learning is preparing the mind to accept new knowledge.
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mind
learning
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Ben Bova |
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The whole procedure of his thinking, Jason knew, was an imbecilic exercise; there was no compelling reason for him to seek an answer. And yet his mind bored on and on and he could not stop it, hanging with desperation to an impossibility to which it never should have paid attention.
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mind
worry
thinking
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Clifford D. Simak |
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The fading relevance of the nature-nurture argument has recently been revived by the rise of evolutionary psychology. A more sophisticated understanding of Darwinian evolution (survival of the fittest) has led to theories about the possible evolutionary value of some psychiatric disorders. A simplistic view would predict that all mental illnesses with a genetic component should lower survival and ought to die out. 'Inclusive fitness', however, assesses the evolutionary value of a characteristic not simply on whether it helps that individual to survive but whether it makes it more likely that their offspring will survive. Richard Dawkins's 1976 book The Selfish Gene gives convincing explanations of the evolutionary advantages of group support and altruism when individuals sacrifice themselves for others. A range of speculative hypotheses have since been proposed for the evolutionary advantage of various behaviour differences and mental illnesses. Many of these draw on ethological games-theory (i.e. the benefits of any behaviour can only be understood in the context of the behaviour of other members of the group). So depression might be seen as a safe response to 'defeat' in a hierarchical group because it makes the individual withdraw from conflict while they recover. Mania, conversely, with its expansiveness and increased sexual activity, is proposed as a response to success in a hierarchical tussle promoting the propagation of that individual's genes. Changes in behaviour that look like depression and hypomania can be clearly seen in primates as they move up and down the pecking order that dominates their lives. The habitual isolation and limited need for social contact of individuals with schizophrenia has been rather imaginatively proposed as adaptive to remote habitats with low food supplies (and also a protection against the risk of infectious diseases and epidemics). Evolutionary psychology will undoubtedly increasingly influence psychiatric thinking - many of our disorders fit poorly into a classical 'medical model'. Already it has helped establish a less either-or approach to the discussion. It is, however, a highly controversial area - not so much around mental disorders but in relation to social behaviour and particularly to gender specific behaviour. Here it is often interpreted as excusing a very male-orientated, exploitative worldview. Luckily that is someone else's battle.
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mind
depression
evolutionary-psychology
the-selfish-gene
mania
mental-illness
psychiatry
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Tom Burns |