Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
I had a friend whose life was perfect. She always said to me, "I'm truly blessed." I thought, "Of course you're blessed; your life is perfect." Even during a difficult time, circumstances moved to take care of everything for her. When I remarked on this she repeated, "I'm truly blessed." I never put it together until I discovered The Secret; it was her words that BROUGHT her blessed and perfect life!
The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams.
I have lots of strange ideas in the back of my mind.
It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.
But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.
To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.
Whatever your mind feeds upon your mind attracts to you.
Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.
In the beginning was the secret brain. The brain was celled and soldered in the thought
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.
Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.
Whatever is going on in your mind is what you are attracting.
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.
Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
