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• If you die to everything you know,including your family,yourmemory,everything you have felt,then death is a purification,a rejuvenating process;then death brings innocence and it is only the innocent who are passionate, not the people who believe or who want to find out what happens after death.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Believe, People, Passionate

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1966-1967 : Perennial questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

  Plutarch

  May, Gains, Strange

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• The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive how distinctly it places in a true and just light the mutual relations and connexion of the various steps of mathematical analysis; how clearly it separates those things which are in reality distinct and independent, and unites those which are mutually dependent.

  Ada Lovelace

  Independent, Reality, Light

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• The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental life, which are as common as they are important, and to find a place for them in the framework of science.

  Sigmund Freud

  Important, Analysis, Division

  Sigmund Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course of mental processes. If such a dominance existed, the immense majority of our mental processes would have to be accompanied by pleasure or to lead to pleasure, whereas universal experience completely contradicts any such conclusion.

  Sigmund Freud

  Majority, Principles, Dominance

  Sigmund Freud (2014). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Wake Up, May

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Our culture teaches us that making significant changes takes a long time and is difficult to do. This is simply NOT true. Change happens in an instant. It is not a process - it is something you do in an instant by simply making a decision.

  Tony Robbins

  Significant Change, Long, Decision

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• Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

  E. B. White

  Understanding, Done, Frogs

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• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Ideas, Battle, Youth

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• Life has to be in the moment, spontaneous and venerable. There isn't any winning or losing. Life itself, as it flowers in depth and subtlety, is the reward, and it isn't always an easy or fun process. We must learn to see that the issue of happiness is irrelevant. The relevant quest is the expansion of consciousness.

  Richard Moss

  Fun, Flower, Winning

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• I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

  J. G. Ballard

  Exercise, Reality, Imagination

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• The rules of the universe that we think we know are buried deep in our processes of perception.

  Gregory Bateson

  Thinking, Perception, Buried

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• We might even define the human as a dynamic process produced by a series of identifications and misidentifications with animality.

  Simon Critchley

  Might, Identification, Humans

  Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy Simon Critchley, Simon Critchley (2011). “On Humour”, p.39, Routledge

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• Flow is the process of achieving happiness through control over one's inner life. The optimal state of inner experience is order in consciousness. This happens when we focus our attention (psychic energy) on realistic goals and when our skills match the challenges we face.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Order, Psychics, Skills

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• One great feature of modern society is the institutionalized respect we give to processes designed to destroy the past.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Giving, Modern

  Lawrence Lessig (2009). “Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy”, p.140, A&C Black

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• We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

  Deepak Chopra

  Compassion, Creative, Meditation

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• Blake expressed some doubt as to whether God had made the tiger. But the tiger is in many ways an admirable animal. We have now to ask whether God made the tapeworm. And it is questionable whether an affirmative answer fits in either with what we know about the process of evolution or what many of us believe about the moral perfection of God.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Believe, Animal, Perfection

  "The Causes of Evolution". Book by John B. S. Haldane, 1932.

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• In reference to right answers - Knowing is a process, not a product.

  Jerome Bruner

  Knowing, Answers, Products

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• Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

  Virginia Woolf

  Integrity, Facts, Loses

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.95, Oxford University Press

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• Substance is a subspecies of value. When you reverse the containment process and define substance in terms of value the mystery disappears: substance is a "stable pattern of inorganic values." The problem then disappears. The world of objects and the world of values is unified.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Substance, World, Patterns

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• There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.

  Aldo Leopold

  Animal, Men, Boards

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.188, Library of America

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• I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.

  Burl Ives

  Moving, Heart, Thinking

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• It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.

  David F. D'Alessandro

  Vision, Artistic, Timing

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• You'll find in Africans a fantastic amount of heavy space opera and so on, going on ... which makes the colored African very, very interesting to process because he doesn't know why he goes through all these dances ... and why he feels so barbarous.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Space, Interesting, Opera

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• Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.

  Malcolm Morley

  Dream, Thinking, Self

  "Malcolm Morley and the self". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 20, 2015.

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