Tama J. Kieves Quotes

• You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

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  Leadership, Opportunity, Waiting

  Tama J. Kieves (2003). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• What is your real work? Is it that which pays the bills or is it your art? I think your real work is healing. Whatever helps you become more loving in this lifetime. Whatever helps you forgive yourself, embrace yourself, meet yourself, and free yourself in this lifetime.

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  Inspiring, Art, Real

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• If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

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  Butterfly, Suits You, Speak

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• When you're in transition, you will need to find a different kind of security. It's not one of labels, guarantees or bank balances. It's guidance - the directions of your own inner voice. Moment by moment you know what to do. You are safer than ever before.

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  Trust, Voice, Balance

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• You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.

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  People, Judging, Judgement

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• Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know.

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  Peace, Passion, Love Is

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

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  Doors, Somewhere Else, Arrows

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• You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable" responses or you can listen to the sweet madness in your bones.

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  Sweet, Voice, Expectations

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• You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else.

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  Dream, Manifestation, Your Dreams

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• Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.

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  Creativity, Oxygen, Needs

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• Give three hundred seconds to your dream. Take a tiny step with big integrity. It takes a step to break to break into a run. The result at hand doesn't matter. The resolve does. Show up for your love. Showing up always shines.

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  Running, Dream, Integrity

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism.

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  Relief, Favors, Abandoned

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.

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  Hurt, Too Much, Way

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• Just start dancing and the band will find you.

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  Dancing, Band, Ecstasy

  Tama J. Kieves (2003). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• Love does not call us to the dance only to deny us chances . There is consistency in this journey. As in the beginning, so shall it be in the middle and the end. Love does not tempt us to leave what we know, only to leave us without direction, resources, synergy and flow.

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  Love, Journey, Consistency

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way.

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  Love You, Work You Love, Desire

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• Life just turns deliciously quirky when you stop resisting yourself and, instead, honor the intuition that tugs at you like a puppy on a leash in the park. Follow the magic and magic starts to follow you.

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  Magic, Honor, Intuition

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• Run, run, run - with everything you have - into everything you are meant to be.

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  Running, Authenticity, Meant To Be

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• The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential.

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  Astonishment, Worship, Conventions

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.

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  Strong, Struggle, Butterfly

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and quality comes from purity. Purity wails. Integrity taps a nerve. Inspiration slips beneath the skin of yoru skin and turns disinterested strangers into warm-bodied kin.

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  Integrity, Inspiration, Skins

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• It doesn't matter how you begin. Just jump in. Get moving.

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  Moving, Matter, Action

  Tama J. Kieves (2018). “Thriving Through Uncertainty: Moving Beyond Fear of the Unknown and Making Change Work for You”, p.169, Penguin

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• There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration.

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  Inspiration, Genuine, Higher

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers, and brilliant souls to take their passion into the marketplace.

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  Wall, Passion, Artist

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