"For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything."

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Source : "Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality" by Marilynne Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2010.

Marilynne Robinson

#Mind Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Humans Quotes

“We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra...”
“With a Trump administration we don't know enough yet to make predictions, but if past behavior is any indication, I am not encouraged.”

Source : Source: www.democracynow.org
“Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.”
“Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.”
“Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear”
“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.60, Lulu.com
“You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.”
“Fiction works when it makes a reader feel something strongly.”

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