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You look somewhere else, then you see something different and so your journey for wisdom starts! Wise man’s mind is the mind looking at everywhere!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle’s eye!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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To attain the wisdom of every season, you must live all the seasons!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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There are paths above the paths, the paths of the birds! There are paths above the paths of the birds, the paths of the clouds! And there are paths above the paths of the clouds, the paths of the planets! When you are travelling on a path, never forget that there are higher paths, there are higher wisdoms over your head!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Whatever happens when the seed meets the soil, the same thing happens when you meet the wisdom!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Wisdom is not a mysterious universe where your mind enters but it is a mysterious universe which enters your mind!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Let your walk be wisely so that you can inspire others to walk wisely!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You will never attain wisdom without walking on different streets, without talking to different people, without reading different books, in short, without meeting with the things different in every aspect!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Old people have wisdom but not energy; young people have energy but not wisdom; energy and wisdom must be in the same body to create a much better civilisation! To do this, we will either give energy to the old or we will give wisdom to the young and for now the latter seems a more plausible action!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You will not find happiness till you find your peaceful corner in life!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you know the art of finding some things in a quite empty street, then you know the art of happiness!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Human mind is the only real hope for the future of humanity! Have faith in human mind which is the only instrument who can protect you in this savage universe!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When we feel ourselves very weak, life will look immensely powerful and ruthless! The extent of our power is the key factor in determining how powerful life is! The stronger we are the weaker the life will be!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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They say life is a test and this is a ridiculous idea! There is neither examination nor examinant! You encounter problems in life either because you are stupid or your path just crosses with the problems’ path by luck! Nobody is sending you problems to test you! Stay loose and chuck out the irrational idea of ‘test’ at once!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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In moments when you feel that life is unbearably heavy, surrender yourself to the circumstances for a while! When life hits you hard and makes you fall down, take a rest on the ground for a while! Momentaneous non-resistance will give you time to gather your strength!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Life is sometimes to be a monkey with a monkey, to be a dog with a dog, a bird with a bird, water with water, tree with tree! It is a great wisdom to interiorize the mind of others, in other words, to make their spirit our own spirit!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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With the same habit of mind, even if you live thousands of lives, all will be the same! Get a different habit of mind to get a different life!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you concentrate on the road too much, you will miss the view and when you do the opposite, you will miss the road! Life is an art of catching both the road and the view!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Trust not tomorrow! Whatever you are planning, today is the best day to act!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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No moment is more valuable than this moment because no moment is alive outside this moment any moment other than this moment is either dead or hasn’t born yet!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence! .Mehmet Murat Ildan
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What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you harden the soil, the seed cannot grow; if you harden your heart, the love cannot grow!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The luckiest generation in a country is always the one which has never went through any war in their lifetimes!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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An invitation of a beautiful street is an invitation to walk within a dream!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When you start dreaming, you become just a body because your mind is now somewhere else! A dreaming person is just a mindless body!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Not only the dead are dead but also those who are deprived of their freedoms are also dead!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Trams are not free; their paths are predetermined; they must travel on the pre-designed paths! You are not a tram; your path is not predetermined; you can travel on any path! Fate is nonsense; you are free, you choose your own path with your own mind!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Don’t let anybody to ruin your inner joy or to interfere in your marvellous rhythm!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If people notice you only when you do something very strange, then you are very lucky! You can enjoy your life without being noticed as long as you don’t do anything very strange!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Life is an ocean and every ocean necessitates right thinking and right action or else sinking becomes the only fate realisable!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If the tranquillity is killing you, seek for the storm to save your life!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The beauty of shadow comes from the beauty of light!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If a leader wants his people to do something, he himself must firstly do it!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You want to feel that you belong to something higher, to something even beyond this universe, then go to the opera!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Art is the greatest opportunity to admire the human mind!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Art is our endless desire to turn the mortal things into the immortal things!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Keep reading! Keep travelling! Keep thinking! And finally you will be there, in the Land of Wisdom where the mind has the power of an eagle’s eye!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When you do your works sincerely, you put wings to your works and then they will fly all over the world on their own!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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To save our dying earth, any government which is not environmentalist must go because on earth there are thousands of governments but there in only one earth! Continuing with the eco-traitor stupid governments means an environmental suicide! Enemies of nature are real barbarians and there is no place for these savages in our civilisation!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Without the intense touch of nature, you can never fully freshen yourself! Go for a camping and there both your weary mind and your exhausted body will rise like a morning sun!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Let us hope that life grant an opportunity to those miserable who live in the golden palaces to taste the infinite peace of a wooden cottage in the countryside and so their misery ends!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Are you looking for a lighthouse? Let me give you an advice: When you improve your own mind, you become your very own lighthouse!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Not your eyes but the capacity of your mind determines how well you see the things happening around you!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Spend your time with the people who talk about the stars because to whichever place you put your mind in, you will move to that place! Stars pull you to the stars; mud pulls you to the mud!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you eliminate this fog? How can you liberate your mind? Just open your mind to the winds of all ideas!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When you are born you have two different potential for the world: You will either be a gift to the world or a trouble to the world!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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In life, courage is sometimes to enter through the door and sometimes it is to walk out the door!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Every time we see a child we travel back to the times we have forgotten and we bitterly visit all the beautiful things taken from us in the name of being an adult!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A little child feeding an animal with great compassion will always look like a giant in our eyes!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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To make a child laugh, you don’t have to do something spectacular because they have already the ability to make themselves happy almost out of nothing!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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What millions believe is often just fairy tales for children! The fabrications of the past are ridiculously accepted as the holies of people! Glory lies in searching the truth not in believing the irrational legends!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Powerful words always travel the whole world!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You can save hundred words with just one look!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.Mehmet Murat Ildan
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To give light to others, you must first take light from others!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Photos which captures human sadness are the noblest and the most meaningful of all the photos!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You can walk in a dream while you are awake: Just walk in the misty morning of a forest!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The most tragic thing for a person is to have a very limited capacity in the matters of dream!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Night is the time to dream and morning is the time to actualize them!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Kindness is your best gift you can ever give to anyone in any time!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you cannot create a meaning, the things you see will always look meaningless to you!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Do you know who your grand grand grand grand grand father is? Probably you don’t! If you want to know your very distant past, just look at yourself because you are the accumulated past, you are the ancient river coming from the valleys of the far past!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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In every man’s life there are moments where looking to the past may ruin the future and in those moments walking forward without looking back is the best thing one can ever do!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When you start your journey towards your target, walk and then rest for a while and then walk again and then rest for a while again and then walk again! Rule out the option of failure in your mind! Leave only one option available: To reach your target!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When you lose your path, you get an opportunity to discover a world you have never known! And better worlds are often found this way! Darkness and uncertainty hide presents in itself!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Every morning is a revolution against the darkness!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Mostly the greedy rich is responsible for the poor’s poverty!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Natural disasters happen from time to time but poverty happens all the time and therefore poverty is the greatest tragedy, it is the greatest disaster of mankind!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Let those who sit know that this world is not a waiting room; it is an arena to struggle, an arena for action! Let the inactive remember that we were born to act, not to sit!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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No matter how right or how beautiful your path is, never try to impose your path on others! Remember that flowers by no means pull bees by force to their world! Your path is your poem; if people like your poem, they will fondly join you in your path!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You will get closer to the truths only when you start thinking this way: My religion is not the best religion, my country is not the best country, my culture is not the best culture, and my life is not the best life! The more you move away from arrogance, pride and prejudice, the more you will get closer to the truth!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Silence is a magical sleep where you find the solutions in your dreams!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence there!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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You want to survive in this universe? Then you are in a no-choice-positon! You have no choice but to be strong, you have no choice but to be hopeful, you have no choice but to be clever and challenger!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Look at the universe! What do you see? An order? Tranquillity? A divine peace? You fool! You ignorant! Over there, galaxies are colliding, suns are exploding, black holes swallowing stars! Now look at the universe again! What do you see? A disorder? Chaos? Anything savage? You see a hell? Now, you see the truth!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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As long as there exist powers greater than you in the universe, you will continue to fight!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Whenever a child is born, a potential power that may consciously change the universe is born!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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Every country is a battlefield for the struggle between honest and dishonest, between honourable and honourless people! At the end, the character of that country will be determined by whichever group wins!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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In life you have always the choice to leave the shadowy places and head towards the illuminated locations!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When people have similar emotions, their faces also look similar!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better!Mehmet Murat Ildan
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If you look at the picture of a beautiful bird eating a little fish, you will see two victims there: Fish is already a victim; but the bird is also a victim because to survive, it has to be a killer; it is forced to be a murderer!Mehmet Murat Ildan