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"When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer acceptable. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others."
"When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts."
"For many people, the first indication of a spiritual awakening is that they suddenly become aware of their thoughts. They become a witness to their thoughts, so to speak. They are not completely identified with their mind anymore and so they begin to sense that there is a depth to them that they had never known before."
"Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection."
"History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable."
"The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature."
"A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs."
"Engineering stimulates the mind."
"Words are a lens to focus one's mind."
"One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind."
"Artists to my mind are the real architects of change."
"If your mind dislike anything obey it"
"Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal."
"If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness."
"Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind."
"I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart."
"Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind."
"I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face."
"Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue."
"The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song."
