“There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind - you are the one who hears it.”
Source: The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
“The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
Source: Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“The mind has a powerful way of attracting things that are in harmony with it, good and bad.”
Source: Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
Source: Culture and Value
“I wouldn’t listen. I wanted everything to stay as it was. I was more afraid of the truth than the lie. The truth would change the circumstances of my life. The lie was static. The lie was peaceful. I was happy with the lie.”
Source: Long Bright River
“Create with the heart; build with the mind.”
Source: Killosophy
“Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“Who can say if the thoughts you have in your mind as you read these words are the same thoughts I had in my mind as I typed them? We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.
And yet, whatever has been lost in translation in the long journey of my thoughts through the maze of civilization to your mind, I think you do understand me, and you think you do understand me. Our minds managed to touch, if but briefly and imperfectly.
Does that thought not make the universe seem just a bit kinder, a bit brighter, a bit warmer and more human?
We live for such miracles.”
Source: The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“You know, it's pretty easy reading this book to see why I was angry and confused for all those years. I lived my life being told different stories: some true, some lies and I still don't know which is which. Children are born innocent. At birth we are very much like a new hard drive - no viruses, no bad information, no crap that's been downloaded into it yet. It's what we feed into that hard drive, or in my case "head drive" that starts the corruption of the files.”
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
“Until you realize how easy it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.”