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The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts. —Meditations 5.16
It is when you listen in this way that you can see that it is only your mind that has the capacity to make you suffer. Only your mind has the capacity to convince you to struggle. Only your mind, nothing else.
Adyashanti • Falling into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering
Developing a relationship with the historical family which is inherent in each individual, the contents of the unconscious, the mythic land of the dead and the ancestors, is the work of individuation and the way in which psyche is developed or transformed. Jung’s psychology rests on this foundation.
Sandra Easter • Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web
What devouring kind of toil could have so shriveled him? What devouring passions had darkened that bulbous countenance, which would have seemed outrageous as a caricature? What had he been?
Honoré de Balzac • Father Goriot
The mind can go anywhere it wishes. You need not go With It. The mind can entertain any thoughts that it wishes. They have nothing to do with you. For you are not the mind.
Kapil Gupta • Atmamun
The second mythic title of the soul is The Awakened Heart.
John Kehoe • Quantum Warrior | The Future of the Mind
People get so lost in the experience of the blocked heart that they ruin their lives over it. What the mind says when the heart is closed is not you. It’s just the mind expressing the state of the closed heart. You are the one who notices.
Michael A. Singer • Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
