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• The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Consciousness, Individual

  "The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams". Book by Carl Jung, p. 85, 1958.

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• For me, the sketchbooks are more like a secret and wholly spontaneous jeu d'esprit and some of them I like as much as anything I have ever done. They are invariably without premeditation. I mean not only that I have no plan when I make them, I also have no plan to make them.

  Robert Motherwell

  Mean, Drawing, Secret

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• Learn to ignore everything anyone (including myself) has ever told you about wine protocol. Sometimes win drinking, like spontaneous sex on the kitchen table, is far more satisfying when you toss out all the rules.

  Bob Blumer

  Sex, Drinking, Wine

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• The more you become a part of society, the less and less you are an individual, the less and less you are spontaneous - because the very membership in the society will not allow you to be spontaneous. You will have to follow the rules of the game. If you enter a society, you accept to follow those rules that the society is playing, or has decided to play.

  Rajneesh

  Games, Play, Society

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• The whole of life has become an institution, a madhouse in which duties are to be fulfilled not love; in which you have to behave, not be spontaneous; in which a pattern has to be followed, not the overflow of life and energy. That's why the mind thinks and decides everything, because there is danger.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Thinking, Mind

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• I interviewed my dad on video in his final weeks. When I asked about his work and finding meaning through helping others, he responded, "I don't think you can be focused on, 'Oh gee, I want to make a difference.' It has to be spontaneous. If it's not...there's some kind of egotistical thing going on. That's a red flag. You hope you impact people on the deepest level you are capable of at the time. Sometimes you hit it, sometimes you don't. You're trying.

  Lisa Shannon

  Dad, Helping Others, Thinking

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• Globalization is a bottom-up phenomenon with all actions initiated by milions of individuals, the sum total of which is globalization. No one is in charge, and no one can anticipate what the sum of all the individual initiatives will be before the result manifest. A global economy can only be the result of spontaneous order.

  John Naisbitt

  Order, Action, Initiative

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• When your love is pure or spiritual, there is no demand, no expectation. There is only the sweetest feeling of spontaneous oneness with the human being or beings concerned.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Spiritual, Oneness

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.223, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• I need about one hundred fifty drafts of a poem to get it right, and fifty more to make it sound spontaneous.

  James Dickey

  Sound, Needs, Fifty

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• When it comes to thinking about how a character talks, there are literary and language considerations. For actors to be able to differentiate between themselves and the characters they are playing while at the same time remain in character and spontaneous requires a sophisticated combination of skills and spirit.

  Mike Leigh

  Character, Thinking, Skills

  Interiew with Chloe Veltman, www.believermag.com. March/April 2009.

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• There is a documentary element in my films, a very strong documentary element, but by documentary element, I mean an element that's out of control, that's not controlled by me. And that element is the words, the language that people use, what they say in an interview. They're not written, not rehearsed. It's spontaneous, extemporaneous material. People

  Errol Morris

  Strong, Mean, People

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• This spontaneous emergence of order at critical points of instability, which is often referred to simply as "emergence," is one of the hallmarks of life. It has been recognized as the dynamic origin of development, learning, and evolution. In other words, creativity-the generation of new forms-is a key property of all living systems.

  Fritjof Capra

  Life, Learning, Creativity

  Fritjof Capra, Ugo Mattei (2015). “The Ecology of Law: Toward a Legal System in Tune with Nature and Community”, p.97, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature.

  David Fontana

  Reality, Essence, Expectations

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• The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, most representative, most universal... That was something I earned from Kerouac, which was that spontaneous writing could be embarrassing... The cure for that is to write the thing down which you will not publish and which you won't show people. To write secretly... so you can actually be free to say anything you want.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Writing, Interesting, People

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• I mean the fun part about when Andy Bernard sings on The Office is he usually embellishes the songs in fun, stupid ways. That's just something that I do in life, like in the shower or whatever. So a lot of that stuff is pretty spontaneous.

  Ed Helms

  Song, Fun, Stupid

  Source: movies.about.com

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• The most promising evidence bearing on reincarnation seems to come from the spontaneous cases, especially among children.

  Ian Stevenson

  Children, Reincarnation, Cases

  Ian Stevenson (1980). “Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation”, p.3, University of Virginia Press

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• In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.

  Chris Tucker

  Stories, Crowds, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't plan [my recordings], I really don't. It's so spontaneous I wish all rock lovers and rock journalist could witness a Ted Nugent recording session. It is so primal, it's like idiot kids in the garage with their first loud amplifiers, its intoxicating, it is irreverent, it is uninhibited.

  Ted Nugent

  Kids, Rocks, Wish

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• I grew up in the theater, and you can't improvise Shakespeare and Ibsen. You have to speak the language. But obviously, in a contemporary film, there's often room for improvisation and spontaneous things that happen. As long as I know what I'm trying to achieve in the scene, and when something comes up, I know that the response is genuine, I'm comfortable. That's really how I build everything.

  Victor Garber

  Long, Trying, Rooms

  "Victor Garber Talks BIG GAME, LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, THE FLASH, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 29, 2015.

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• I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.

  John Leguizamo

  Liars, Hero, Thinking

  "John Leguizamo On Outsourcing, Obama and Mood Swings". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I actually take images of things and put them up around the wall and in a room. I set a room aside. It might be colors, it might be animals, or energy and words. And I'll just leave it there, so it begins to work on my subconscious when I think about the character. Which gives me some latitude to be really flexible and spontaneous but within the context of the character and the world of the character without having to think about it. Or I'll look at something or read something and let it work on my subconscious mind.

  Wesley Snipes

  Wall, Character, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• One take, so you better be ready and you better be good. One take and that was it. It was something that was spontaneous. Both Sid Caesar and Jackie Gleason was like that as well.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Sids, Be Good, Wells

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.

  Susan Sontag

  Reflection, Practice, Use

  Source: ctheory.net

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• A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.

  John Stuart Mill

  Wisdom, Government, People

  John Stuart Mill (1849). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes”, p.516

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• The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, Levels, Uniforms

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.261, Psychology Press

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