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“A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial.”

Trying Mind Cases Judging Bears Trials

Author:Philo

“Fulfilling our destiny and realizing our potential all begins in our mind. That's why the devil tries to bombard our thinking.”

Thinking Trying Mind Realizing Destiny Devil Satan Potential Fulfilling Our Destiny

Author:Christine Caine

“People try to reconcile you to a disappointment in love by asking why you should cherish a passion for an object that has proved itself worthless. Had you known this before, you would not have encouraged the passion; but that having been once formed, knowledge does not destroy it. If we have drank poison, finding it out does not prevent its being in our veins: so passion leaves its poison in the mind!”

Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt

“When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not- God as the raw material for our minds to work on; hence whatever we visualize God to be, He is not, for we have constructed our image out of that which He has made and what He has made is not God. If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.”

Ifs Trying Mind Made Ends Use Hands Imagine Materials Idols Offensive Raw Materials

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“A person dies every second, but there’s also a six year old somewhere, every second, trying to move an apple with his mind.”

Trying Years Mind Persons Moving Dies Six Apples Every Second Six Year Olds

Author:Craig Stone

“Oppression tries to defend itself by its utility. But we have seen that it is one of the lies of the serious mind to attempt to give the word "useful" an absolute meaning; nothing is useful if it is not useful to man; nothing is useful to man if the latter is not in a position to define his own ends and values, if he is not free.”

Ifs Men Giving Trying Mind Ends Lying Values Position Serious Absolutes Oppression Latter Utility Meaning Nothing

Book:The Ethics of Ambiguity

Source: The Ethics of Ambiguity

“I carry themes in my mind for years before I will try to compose them. I've got themes that will last me now 'til I die.”

Trying Years Mind Lasts Dies Theme

Book:Kitaj

Source: Kitaj

“I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.”

People Knows Trying Mind Mean Fantasy Things To Do Frustrating Frustrating Things

Author:Sydney Pollack

“The storytelling mind is allergic to uncertainty, randomness, and coincidence. It is addicted to meaning. If the storytelling mind cannot find meaningful patterns in the world, it will try to impose them. In short, the storytelling mind is a factory that churns out true stories when it can, but will manufacture lies when it can’t.”

Ifs World Trying Mind Stories Lying Patterns Meaningful Storytelling Uncertainty Factories Coincidence Find Me True Story Randomness Allergic

Book:The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

Source: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human

“Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.”

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters