... paucity, this narrowness.... It's relatively easy to get out of mental paucity, mental narrowness: one has only to pierce a hole, go beyond, and view things from above; and yes, immediately, it all widens. That's relatively easy. But this vital and PHYSICAL paucity, material narrowness... ohh! For mental narrowness, we know the means—one has only to go beyond it—we know the means. But this ( Mother ...
... which are all too often bitter and nearly always unnecessary, or any clash of opinion which ends in heated discussions and even quarrels, Page 60 which are always the result of some mental narrowness that can easily be cured when one rises high enough in the mental domain. For sectarianism becomes impossible when one knows that any formulated thought is only one way of saying something ...
... also are justified in their thinking and feeling although it differs from his and he ought not to despise them and call them bad names. Among human beings, the most widely spread disease is mental narrowness. They understand only what is in their own consciousness and cannot tolerate anything else. 24 September 1953 A person who considers only his own opinion becomes more and more narrow ...
... one-pointed in your surrender and sincere in your aspiration and you will constantly feel the presence of the Divine's help and guidance. Among human beings, the most widely spread disease is mental narrowness. They can understand only what they think or feel and cannot tolerate the rest. To realise a progressive truth theories must be remoulded according to practice and not practice made to ...
... nothing but selective likings, derived from habitual fancies, desires, automatic attractions, etc. They are basically irrational and arbitrary. Even our highest intellectual preferences are born of mental narrowness and conservatism. They preclude an unfettered approach to truth, a wide and equal reception of the touches of the world, and an impersonal, universal outlook. Our pre-conceived ideas are the ...
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