Mind

"To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way out of mud and scurries along the damp edges of what is most commonly praised. And sometimes its invisibility is a blessing. Swamps and bogs are places of transition and wild growth, breeding grounds, experimental labs where organisms and ideas have the luxury of being out of the spotlight, where the imagination can mutate and mate, send tendrils into and out of the water."

"Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow."

"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter."

"It is what it is because you let it be so."

"I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again."

"Everything is created twice. Once in your mind, then in your life!"

"Each thinking mind is a political mind"

"Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game."

"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic."

"The more freedom you get, the less your mind and your body is strangled!"

"Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation."

"There are days we all live with defensive thoughts in our mind. Without losing these thoughts we can’t totally be ourselves, and enjoy life's freedom of the heart."

"It's ok to do your own thing for a while sometimes the call of the soul is a much more enticing path then one of a drunken phone call from your pals, call it the 21st century or whatever you wish but most live for the weekend untying the knots & ropes of slavery from during the week with no drive nor purpose to become something more than a pay check & a good time every 5 days."

"Truth cage your freedom... you are not anymore free have this in mind."

"Out of all the creatures that roam the earth man is the only one that managed to enslave itself."

"Because of the Dharma, my mind was more free in prison than worldly people experience in the best of circumstances."

"Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!"

"The only way a man can realise his freedom, its only when he has freed his mind. Therefore, freedom means nothing if the mind is still not free. Free your mind and it will free your life too."

"No situation can enslaved us, if we are free in our mind."

"Freedom of the mind is the most important liberty we have. Our belief in God’s grace gives us that freedom."