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• It's not just NYU. There are days when I feel like I'm stranded in some upscale mall in Pasadena. Don't even get me started on the insidious transformation of Bleecker Street!

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Nyu, Malls, Insidious

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• Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Success, Goal, Realization

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• The way you reach that awareness is through an inner journey that brings about an emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation. A deep inner shift in your reality occurs, aligning you with the creative energy of the Universe. Such change is possible when you invite Spirit to open up the eyes of your awareness to the abundance that is already yours.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Spiritual, Eye, Journey

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• LOVE LETTERS TO YOURSELF This is taken from a love letter (a gentle reminder) I wrote to myself recently. Live in your joy today. Be authentic. Love yourself. First. Love others from your own abundance. Life Changes. Circumstances change. Sometimes you try to fit your old way of being into new circumstances rather than becoming new yourself. Embrace transformation as an opportunity. And keep on writing love letters to yourself.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Life Changing, Love You, Taken

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• For some, transformation comes quickly, but for most of us, the changes are gradual.

  Florence Littauer

  Fred Littauer, Florence Littauer (1993). “Get a Life Without the Strife”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

  Janet Yellen

  Maturity, Shadow, Banking

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• The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Opinion, Life Is, Universe

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.22, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

  Richard Rohr

  Teacher, Ideas, Darkness

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• As one of us transforms we activate transformational energies in others, which enables them to more readily reconnect with the wisdom of their innate creative source.

  Julia Hill

  Creative, Energy, Source

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• Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

  Starhawk

  Opportunity, Ritual

  "Infinity in Your Hand : A Guide for the Spiritually Curious". Book by William H. Houff, p. 151, 1994.

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• The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Mind, Important

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• All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may not be seen (except afterwards, by historians) until the last great step. In many cases the full potentiality and force of a most radical step in such a sequence of transformations may not even be manifest to its author.

  I. Bernard Cohen

  Science, May, Lasts

  I. Bernard Cohen (1983). “The Newtonian Revolution”, p.162, Cambridge University Press

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• All of salvation is to make us look good! We who are dirty, worn, broken, and sinful are to be the showcase of heaven.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Dirty, Broken, Heaven

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• Technological transformations give you the chance to set up new and ambitious ventures. That's what I did with FastWeb and that is what we are doing with Babelgum. This is much more than TV because we are making the content available all across the world and you have an open platform with freedom of choice.

  Silvio Scaglia

  Giving, Choices, Ambitious

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• You see for me, America is an idea. It is a stage for transformation. I felt when I came to Iowa City from Calcutta that suddenly I could be a new person . . . What America offers me is romanticism and hope . . . Suddenly, I found myself in a country where

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Country, Iowa, Cities

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• Now a confirmed atheist, I've become convinced of the enormous contribution that Christian evangelism makes in Africa: sharply distinct from the work of secular NGOs, government projects and international aid efforts. These alone will not do. Education and training alone will not do. In Africa Christianity changes people's hearts. It brings a spiritual transformation. The rebirth is real. The change is good.

  Matthew Parris

  Christian, Spiritual, Atheist

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• Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.

  Paulo Coelho

  Self Improvement

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• The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible symptoms of a particular model of capitalism that will bring civilisation to its knees. But those symptoms will not get sorted unless and until we commit to a radical transformation of the way we create and distribute wealth in the world today

  Jonathon Porritt

  Climate, Banking, World

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• You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

  Leeza Gibbons

  Deep Thought, Custody, Today

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• Can another help bring about a transformation in you? If he can, you are not transformed; you are merely dominated, influenced.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Helping, Influence, Transformed

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1956). “Commentaries on Living”, p.127, Penguin Books India

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• The real transformation of the world comes not from what we are doing but from the consciousness from which we are doing it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, World, Consciousness

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, Nature, Feelings

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• We now know that human transformation does not happen through didacticism or through excessive certitude, but through the playful entertainment of another scripting of reality that may subvert the old given text and its interpretation and lead to the embrace of an alternative text and its redescription of reality.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Reality, Doe, Alternatives

  Walter Brueggemann (2010). “The Word Militant: Preaching a Decentering Word”, p.26, Fortress Press

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• Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the person whose mind is open to contradictions and well-practiced in free conjecture.

  Robert Grudin

  Self, Imagination, Challenges

  Robert Grudin (1990). “The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation”, Ticknor & Fields

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• Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

  Huston Smith

  Religion, Earth, Used

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.225, Univ of California Press

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