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• He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Sleep, Order, Law

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Rebecca”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• When I'm writing I've been playing something for a couple of hours and I'm almost in a trance. At two or three in the morning you can actually see bits of inspiration floating about and grab them.

  Kate Bush

  Morning, Couple, Inspiration

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That humankind has fallen into the insanity of concensus trance, and lost touch with our true possibilities and functions is a tragedy.

  Charles Tart

  Insanity, Tragedy, Possibility

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• As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

  Alan Moore

  Softball, Believe, Successful

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• The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully.

  Tara Brach

  Focus, Survival, Mind

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• Feelings and stories of unworthiness and shame are perhaps the most binding element in the trance of fear. When we believe something is wrong with us, we are convinced we are in danger. Our shame fuels ongoing fear, and our fear fuels more shame. The very fact that we feel fear seems to prove that we are broken or incapable. When we are trapped in trance, being fearful and bad seem to define who we are. The anxiety in our body, the stories, the ways we make excuses, withdraw or lash out—these become to us the self that is most real.

  Tara Brach

  Real, Believe, Self

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• Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live only in a Craftsman house, the year won't matter to you, all that will matter is that the walls will be thick, the windows tiny, the rooms dark, the ceilings low, and it will be poorly situated on the lot.

  Maria Semple

  Wall, Dark, Years

  "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?". Book by Maria Semple, 2012.

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• The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to "the sweetness of belonging," is acceptance - acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.

  Tara Brach

  Acceptance, Path, Judgment

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• I think you do kind of slip into a trance when you look at a painting. At least I do.

  Joe Bradley

  Thinking, Looks, Painting

  Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.

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• Once I get onstage the tension explodes and I'm fine. I'm in another world - in a trance almost, doing what I love best, expressing myself through guitar.

  Jimmy Page

  Love Is, Guitar, World

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• In ancient cultures, they didn*t practice theory in their dances; they wanted to arrive at a state of trance, and I think that's an appropriate approach for the arts: to create a work that is entrancing.

  Reza Abdoh

  Art, Thinking, Practice

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• If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, People, Soul

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• The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.

  Rachel Pollack

  Two, Bird, Paganism

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• ... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Dance, Kind, Conscious

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• The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

  John Milton

  Running, Lying, Cells

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.368

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• While once it was the rank and file that cheered with all the partisan passions at their heights, today it is the party leaders who are cheering themselves; and all by themselves. The mob that is their audience is in one vast universal trance, thinking about something else.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Leadership, Cheer, Party

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• The people of Earth are emerging from an amnesiac-like state of collective shock, which has blocked the influx of spiritual knowledge into the human gene pool. And while it is quite obvious to many that “You create your reality”, the vast majority of humans still need to be awakened from the unconsciously controlled trance of powerlessness that they voluntarily took on.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Spiritual, Reality, People

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.22, New World Library

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• The fact is that the truth of harmony and human brotherhood derives not from an absorbed trance but from an awakened prajñâ or wisdom; and its validity depends not on any dramatic ecstatic visions but it belongs to man's (...) natural reason unspoilt by theologies of exclusiveness.

  Ram Swarup

  Men, Brotherhood, Vision

  "Ramakrishna Mission" by Ram Swarup, (p.13), 1986.

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• I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing.

  Jimmy Page

  Country, Musical, Intellectual

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• Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.

  Ishmael

  Sleep, Men, Hands

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• I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

  Byron Katie

  Morning, Sleep, Bed

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• Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Believe, Survival, Consciousness

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• Offer some gesture of kindness to yourself. Sometimes it's just a message, to say: "It's okay. You're going to be okay. We've been through this before." The intention is reassurance, that you are not alone and you can do this. It is the most powerful way to come out of what I call the "trance of unworthiness."

  Tara Brach

  Powerful, Kindness, Gestures

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Most of the myths that we carry about spirituality are because we have been dominated by this hyper-masculine trance.

  Arjuna Ardagh

  Spirituality, Masculine, Myth

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.

  Wayne White

  Cameras, Rolling, Helping

  Source: screenanarchy.com

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