"Keep an Open Mind"

          by Natalia Funes and Daniela Bendeck 11th grade TOK - Spring of 2023

"Food for thought" for the open mind...

• It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

      Claude Bernard

• The world's foremost cellist, Pablo Casals, was asked one day (at at the then age of 83 years old) why he continued to practice four and five hours a day. Casuals answered, Because i think I am making progress."

Pablo Casals

• When we consider that everything we experience results from a complex interplay of causes and conditions, we find that there is no single thing to desire or resent, and it is more difficult for the afflictions of attachment or anger to arise.

The Dalai Lama

• The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then, Life is dull without it.

Pearl S. Buck

• The most beautiful attire is a smile.

Amish Proverb

• The more times one listens to a particular teaching the greater will be one's understanding on that subject. Many lamas say that when students attend a teaching on a familiar topic, even though they may not hear anything new, they will understand something new.

    Tibetan Buddhism

• I don't have illusions about permanence.... It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight to hell as long as these streams continue to hold up. If this amounts to living in a fool's paradise, don't waste your time trying to explain that to th fool.

    John Gierach

• Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

    Marie Curie

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

    M. Ghandi

• Are you equating losing with failure? Well, stop that!

    D. Dobbe

• Knowledge put into action and tempered with wisdom is a strong approach to any situation!

  D. Dobbe