Their minds are full of dead ideas, images and distorted facts.
Now unshaven and exhausted, their eyes were heavy from lack of sleep, their minds still full of the horror they had just experienced during the bloody battle they had waged against the terrorists in the hotel's maze of corridors and rooms.
"Their mind is full of the tragedy," she said.
Where experts, who felt compelled to provide answers, were entrenched and encumbered by their past experiences, our recent graduates came to us with open minds full of questions.
They are people with minds full of ideas and hearts full of yearning, occasionally roused to declarations of love and even a gunshot or two, but they are never really going to shake the sense of stasis in their souls.
People told us about volunteering saving them from loneliness and providing a way to keep their minds active and lives full of purpose.
But the explosive success of the smartphone demonstrates the miracles that can happen when software developers turn their minds to exploiting the full potential of a device loaded with sensors and computing power.
Customers have 14 days to change their minds and get a full refund for digital content or goods ordered at home, and services must be repeated or fixed if not carried out with reasonable care and skill.
In most cases, these mums are not thinking about the impact absence from school is going to have on their child because their mind is so full of worries about their family being evicted from their homes.
