As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?

Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.

Great minds think alike because a greater Mind is thinking through them.

Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.

If you keep your mind sufficiently open people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.

Within our impure mind the pure one is to be found.

By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: I am not bound, I am free, becomes free.

The mind, by its very nature, persistently tries to live forever, resisting age and attempting to give itself a form... . When a person passes his prime and his life begins to lose true vigor and charm, his mind starts functioning as if it were another form of life; it imitates what life does, eventually doing what life cannot do.

Mind is a kingdom to the man who gathereth his pleasure from ideas.

(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology.

Mind is a light which the Gods mock us with, To lead those false who trust it.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

There are some things the arrogant mind does not see; it is blinded by its vision of what it desires.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from some pretty elegant furnishings.

Use it or lose it.

Mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to go.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

The mind is everything; what you think, you become.

None but ourselves can free our minds.