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“The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is--not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself. The best Nature does for us is to work in us such moods in which thoughts of high import arise. Does any aspect of Nature wake but one thought? Does she ever suggest only one definite thing? Does she make any two men in the same place at the same moment think the same thing? Is she therefore a failure, because she is not definite? Is it nothing that she rouses the something deeper than the understanding--the power that underlies thoughts? Does she not set feeling, and so thinking at work? Would it be better that she did this after one fashion and not after many fashions? Nature is mood-engendering, thought-provoking: such ought the sonata, such ought the fairytale to be. "But a man may then imagine in your work what he pleases, what you never meant!" Not what he pleases, but what he can. If he be not a true man, he will draw evil out of the best; we need not mind how he treats any work of art! If he be a true man, he will imagine true things; what matter whether I meant them or not? They are there none the less that I cannot claim putting them there! One difference between God's work and man's is, that, while God's work cannot mean more than he meant, man's must mean more than he meant. For in everything that God has made, there is a layer upon layer of ascending significance; also he expresses the same thought in higher and higher kinds of that thought: it is God's things, his embodied thoughts, which alone a man has to use, modified and adapted to his own purposes, for the expression of his thoughts; therefore he cannot help his words and figures falling into such combinations in the mind of another as he had himself not foreseen, so many are the thoughts allied to every other thought, so many are the relations involved in every figure, so many the facts hinted in every symbol. A man may well himself discover truth in what he wrote; for he was dealing all the time things that came from thoughts beyond his own.”

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Book:The Fantastic Imagination of George MacDonald
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“Although we each believe our thoughts are specific and personal, our thoughts, fears, and desires are typical to all egos and commonly shared. In this way, it is relatively easy to read the thoughts of most humans with just a few subtle cues. Thoughts tend to run along the same worn tracks leading to the same worn conclusions. Combining this knowledge with an understanding of the types of thoughts that individuals at different levels of consciousness gravitate towards will, with experience, lead to becoming a most astute mind reader.”

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Book:The Love of Devotion
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“A quiet time gives our mind the conditions to allow unconscious thoughts to rise to the surface. Our unconscious thoughts lead and form our life far more than our conscious ones. They can and do lead us into danger. They can also lead us to safety. The more we are aware of these thoughts, the more we become their master. A fool believes he is a master of his destiny when he does not even know his thoughts.”

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Book:The Love of Devotion
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“So many people in the world feel they don’t have a voice to speak out on what they don’t like, or what’s troubling them. You do have a voice, the lord gave you. So, wash away the fear of not being heard that surrounds you. Don’t ever let someone else speak for you. Don’t put your thoughts in their hands, as they carry away your emotions down a path you don’t know. These are your thoughts and feeling, and they should be express calmly by you, relieving your mind of the unspoken burden you’ve lived with.”

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Author:Ron Baratono
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“We are what we repeatedly do,' Aristotle said. 'Therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit.' The stoics add to that that we are a product of our thoughts: 'Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind'; Marcus Aurelius put it. Think about your activities of the last week, as well as what you have planned for today and the week that follows. The person you'd like to be...how close do your actions actually correspond to him or her? Which fire are you feeding? Which person are you becoming?”

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Book:The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
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