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A remarkable capability of the human mind is the ability to reduce the entire world to a single thought and the entirety of time to a single moment. And this seems to be something that reflects in the lives and work of some of the most successful people in our world, how their ideas or creations aim towards the entire world, for all time, something that probably needs to exist in their minds in a way that it can process them.    Think about the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel laureate and humanist. Or of the actions of someone like Mahatma Gandhi. A notable facet of their humanism is that their minds processed the facts of their time altogether into sets of singularities,  as is evident in Tagore's spiritual guidance to humanity (speaking about the spiritual condition of all humanity) and Gandhi's prognosis of what was wrong with India in the 20th century (speaking about facts that affected the entire sub-continent). Through the thoughts that they entertained