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Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. ”
When you're outside, and everything is highland, it's like nature has its own sound, and that's one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think. ”
I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma. ”
Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves. ”
Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation. ”
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind. ”
Ninety-nine percent of the things that seem weird in my life can be answered with my religion. Paganism is mostly about nature-worship. It's about being in harmony with your environment and bringing the world of spirit and world of man together. It's about balance. ”
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ”
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. ”
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. ”