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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of…
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For, in truth, an image is only dead matter shaped by the craftsman's hand. But we have no sensible image of sensible…
— Clement of Alexandria
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Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a…
— Sarah Josepha Hale
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The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most…
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Man inhabits a realm half in and half out of nature, his mind reaching forever beyond the tool, the uniformity, the law,…
— Loren Eiseley
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
— Roger L'Estrange
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Let your mind alone, and see what happens.
— Virgil Thomson
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone…
— Roger L'Estrange
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Art, if it can be ascribed value, is most valuable when its beauty (and the beauty of the truth it tells) bewilders,…
— Andrew Peterson
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You can’t change the mind with the mind alone, or we’d all be enlightened
— Wendy Palmer
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Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God…
— Guru Gobind Singh
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Leave your mind alone, that is all. Do not go along with it. After all, there is no such thing as mind…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a…
— Lawren Harris
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