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“When you are blessed with a beautiful light, don’t ask where it comes from or why it comes, how it comes, when it will end! Just feel the light, live the light, unite with the light! All your questions will be answered when you surrender to the thing happening to you because at that case you become that very thing happening to you, you become the light itself!”

“Keeping your peace requires serious effort; you need to take precautions against everything that disturbs your peace! From a fly disturbing your peace while reading a book to the nonsense that happens in your country, you need to neutralize each and every disturber with a counter-move that is sometimes very simple and sometimes very complex! Yes, my friend, keeping your peace is an art!”

“If your government keep making big mistakes and in return you keep supporting your government, then you are the biggest mistake for your country!”

“Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign; some make a small mistake but they immediately resign! What makes a political leader to resign or not to resign has something to do with having an honour or not! Those who have honour always choose the honourable way: Resignation!”

“What can you expect from a stupid government? Anything good? Anything useful, anything clever? Anything just? No! You can expect nothing but stupidity, nothing but mistakes, nothing but injustices and tragedies! All a stupid government can do is to produce wrecks and debris!”

“For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!”

“The 'stream' we call science always flows forward; sometimes reactionary beavers block its flow, but the stream is never defeated by this; it accumulates, gathers strength; its waters get over the barrage and continue on their course. The advancement of science is the advancement of God, for science is nothing but human intelligence, and human intelligence is the most valuable treasure God has bequeathed us.”

“Innovations, free thinking is blowing like a storm; those that stand in front of it, ignorant scholars like you, false scientists, perverse conservatives, obstinate goats, resisting mules are being crushed under the weight of these innovations. You are nothing but ants standing in front of the giants; nothing but chicks trying to challenge roaring volcanoes!”