A Quote by Jennifer James
Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.
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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Continually reorder the mind and the mental structures, the ability to think in prescribed ways, to analyze in prescribed ways, and to stop thought for periods of time.
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