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• Take an hour every day at dawn and give it to your Self. Meet your Self there, in the holy moment. Then go about your day. You will be a different person.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Change, Self, Giving

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.100, Penguin

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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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• Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

  Henri Nouwen

  Self, Solitude, Our Society

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.18, HarperCollins

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• This transformation is already proceeding, and if we want to consciously find these evolutionary currents operating in our own being as well-if we want to consciously join Spirit-in-action-then the four quardrants can help us orient ourselves more effectively, can help us become more conscious of the evolutionary currents already flowing around us and through us and in us.

  Ken Wilber

  Four, Want, Spirit

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• If we understand the revolutionary transformations caused by new media, we can anticipate and control them; but if we continue in our self-induced subliminal trance, we will be their slaves.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Self, Media, Revolutionary

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• You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.

  Aldrich Ames

  Men, Might, Criminals

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• But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

  Peter Munk

  Taste, Personal Taste

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• 'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.

  Roger Zelazny

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has such a quiet tone.

  John Turturro

  Tone, Quiet, Response

  "John Turturro on 'La Tregua (The Truce)'". Interview with Richard Schwartz, www.filmscouts.com. 1997.

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• Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.

  Polly Toynbee

  Pain, Incapacity, Threshold

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• So, I don't know what is going to happen when the CD comes out, how well it will sell, etc. But, from a personal point of view, it was a very worthwhile endeavor.

  Geddy Lee

  Views, Cds, Etc

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• Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work.

  Sally Schneider

  Book, Cards, Calling

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• However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world.

  Kenzaburo Oe

  Writing, Style, Matter

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 07, 1994.

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• I have a lot of variety within me, and the dream role, I think, is actually a compilation of parts that express different aspects of my persona and personal interests.

  Ashley Judd

  Dream, Thinking, Different

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• Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

  Chris Ware

  Art, World, Critical

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• We promote domestic savings by also things like the personal accounts associated with the president's Social Security initiative, which over time would generate more savings.

  John W. Snow

  President, Saving, Initiative

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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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• For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond. His book transformed the chemical flatland of my earlier textbooks into a world of three-dimensional structures.

  Max Perutz

  Girl, Book, Science

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• We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

  Reid Hoffman

  Philosophy, Believe, Opportunity

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• Teaching unsupported by grace may enter our ears, but it never reaches the heart. When God's grace does touch our innermost minds to bring understanding, then his word, which is received by the ear, can sink deep into the heart.

  Isidore of Seville

  Teaching, Heart, Grace

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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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• The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy. When we realize that a perfect equilibrium in our lives might not be the best basis for making art, then we can begin to re-vision our stress points. So rather than try to rid your life of tension, consider doing something more creative with it.

  Shaun McNiff

  Art, Stress, Opportunity

  Shaun McNiff (1998). “Trust the Process”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• A complete transformation seemed to have place in my life overnight. It was quite staggering, and thenceforward visitors and invitations continued to pour in daily until they became a source of grievance to our landlady, who was obliged to engage an extra servant to respond to the battering of powdered footmen on her humble and somewhat flimsy door.

  Lillie Langtry

  Humble, Doors, Visitors

  Lillie Langtry (2000). “The Days I Knew”, p.37, Panoply Publications

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• If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.

  Sydney Banks

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.

  Deepak Chopra

  Food, Simple, Miracle

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