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Power is not alluring to pure minds. -- Thomas Jefferson
A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings. -- Charles Lamb
Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found. -- Huineng
Speak or act with a pure mind, and happiness will follow you as your shadow, unshakable. -- Gautama Buddha
As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage. -- Ramana Maharshi
One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life. -- Athanasius
The wonder of immaculate, perfect, pure mind is that when it is in its perfect, extant state without confusion, it can be anything it wants to be. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea. -- Ramana Maharshi
What else does one obtain by realization of God? Does one grow two horns? No, the mind becomes pure, and through a pure mind one attains knowledge and awakening. -- Sarada Devi
Those who preached faith, or in other words a pure mind, have always produced more popular virtue than those who preached good acts, or the mere regulation of outward works. -- James Mackintosh
We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with a pure mind and happiness will follow. -- Gautama Buddha
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form. -- Gautama Buddha
A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation; sober counsels and ingenuous actions; open deportment and sweet carriage; sincere principles and unprejudiced understanding; love of God and self-denial; peace and confidence; hol -- Jeremy Taylor
If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God? -- Hugh Prather
He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable. -- Swami Vivekananda
I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Mind precedes all phenomena, mind matters most, everything is mind-made. If with an impure mind, you speak or act, then suffering follows you as the cartwheel follows the foot of the draft animal. If with a pure mind, you speak or act, then happiness follows you as a shadow that never departs -- Gautama Buddha
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure. -- Bodhidharma
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have. -- Franz Schubert
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. -- Buddha
If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big. -- Jeb Hensarling
The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects. -- Charles D. Broad
We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings. -- Kelsang Gyatso
For years, my master had done his utmost to pollute my mind with foul images, and to destroy the pure principles inculcated by my grandmother, and the good mistress of my childhood. -- Harriet Ann Jacobs
Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disney was some sort of god and that animation was some sort of pure thing for children. -- Ralph Bakshi
Our mind is like a cloudy sky: in essence clear and pure, but overcast by clouds of delusions. Just as the thickest clouds can disperse, so, too, even the heaviest delusions can be removed from our mind. -- Kelsang Gyatso
The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam! -- Vikram Seth
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. -- Buddha
Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work. -- Mark Rylance
I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views. -- Ishmael Beah
Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.' -- John C. Reilly
We have the pure nature of the mind. -- Tenzin Palmo
For those pure in mind, everything is pure. -- Georg Feuerstein
Pure happiness can only be attained through developing our mind. -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
If our mind is pure, our desires get manifested quickly. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God. -- Seneca the Younger
Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind -- Andy Biersack
If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. -- Gautama Buddha
As you engage your mind in the scriptures, your mind will become pure. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing. -- Jack Kornfield
You have to feed your mind daily with the good, clean, pure, powerful and positive. -- Zig Ziglar
The closest thing to Heaven, is having a peaceful mind, and a beautiful, pure heart. -- Anthony Liccione
Feed your mind with the good, the clean, the pure, the powerful, and the positive -- Zig Ziglar
Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation. -- Ilchi Lee
Artificial Intelligence is creating a mind, hopefully as pure a mind as possible, for a computer. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure -- Virginia Woolf
Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup. -- Rumi
The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions -- Gautama Buddha
The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple. -- Chinmayananda Saraswati
Art is the reflection of pure emotion and mind, the nature of sensation. An artist illustrates that. -- Unarine Ramaru
When the #â?? mind is strong and the #â?? heart is pure, you are free -- Paramahansa Yogananda
If you are absolutely without mind, just pure consciousness, time stops completely, disappears, leaving no trace behind. -- Rajneesh
Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment, in the clarity of pure awakened mind. -- Matthieu Ricard
Watch, witness. Your body is not you; your mind is not you. You are just a pure witness. -- Rajneesh
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. -- Emile M. Cioran
Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course. -- Zhuangzi
A pure heart and mind only takes you so far - sooner or later the hormones have their say, too. -- Jim Butcher
An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart. -- Ramana Maharshi
Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Meditation simply means a state of no-thought, awareness without the process of thought, just pure, mirror-like awareness, with no thoughts passing in the mind. -- Rajneesh
When your mind is flooded with the pure light of nirvana, which is happiness itself, you will be delighted with whatever occurs to you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
You are so pure in mind and heart, In aspect, too, so mild, I wonder that you ever could Implant your wife with child. -- Martial
The conjunction of the day and the night is the most auspicious time for calling on God. The mind remains pure at this time. -- Sarada Devi
Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. -- Buddha
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious. -- Ramana Maharshi
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I." -- Ramana Maharshi
Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction. -- Rene Descartes
As to the pure all things are pure, so the common mind sees far more vulgarity in others than the mind developed in genuine refinement. -- George MacDonald
Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold it's great proportions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure, and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would attain Buddhahood. -- Huineng
For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just? -- Marcus Aurelius
Only no-mind can be without any duality, because it is empty. The no-mind is choicelessness. The no-mind is pure awareness. It is just the empty sky. -- Rajneesh
The True Self is infinite. It knows no boundaries. Pure essence. Pure light. Engulfing the mind, the soul, the body, the invisible real, with its radiance. -- Alberto Villoldo
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure. -- Isaac of Nineveh
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. -- E. B. White
If you are pure in intention and in alignment with beauty and love, in body and mind, the highest levels of your spiritual self will subsume your weaknesses. -- Bryant McGill
When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea. -- Zicheng Hong
The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses. -- Mahatma Gandhi

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