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• The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

  Hermann Hesse

  Sympathy, Death, Sweet

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography”, p.218, Macmillan

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• The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

  Alexander Pope

  Creativity, Destiny, Creative

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• The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun.

  John Desmond Bernal

  Art, Mean, Needs

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• When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Important, Sound, Sometimes

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• He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Teacher, Messages

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (1992). “The holotropic mind: the three levels of human consciousness and how they shape our lives”, Harpercollins

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• Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.

  Mao Zedong

  Sex, Equality, Process

  Zedong Mao (1972). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung”, p.297, China Books

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• The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

  Abbe Pierre

  School, Discovery, St Francis Of Assisi

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• It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.

  Paulo Freire

  Essentials, Roles, Revolutionary

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.127, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

  Gloria Steinem

  Equal Pay, Feminist, Reform

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• Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists because they are convinced that such a transformation of society can only result from the establishment of a commonwealth of property.

  Johann Most

  Want, Improvement, Anarchist

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• That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age.

  Paul Hawken

  Age, Information, Resources

  "The Next Reformation". Interview with Sarah van Gelder, www.context.org. 1995.

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• Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

  Natalie Wood

  Analysis, Change Yourself, Stills

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• Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.

  Barry Commoner

  Technology, Development, Prevention

  Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

  Barry Commoner

  War, Technology, Profound

  Interview with Alan Hall, June 23, 1997.

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• There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

  Coleman Young

  Wine, Water, Gold

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• Something is happening to Britain and the British. Or has happened. We are said to be passing through a transition, or a turning point, or a transformation; nobody is quite sure which.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Transition, British, Said

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• Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

  Aberjhani

  Funny Valentines Day, Mistake, People

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Keys, Miraculous

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• Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Moving, Dark, Laughing

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• Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.

  George Friedman

  War, Life And Death, Matter

  George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.225, Anchor

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• I am convinced that unconditional love is the most powerful known stimulant of the immune system. If I told patients to raise their blood levels of immune globulins or killer T cells, no one would know how. But if I can teach them to love themselves and others fully, the same changes happen automatically. The truth is: love heals.

  Bernie Siegel

  Love, Change, Truth

  "Love, Medicine & Miracles". Book by Bernie Siegel, 1984.

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• This it is to be a man of the highest type: to be and not seem; to do and not simply to talk; to have the right ideal, the true motive and patiently to transform conduct in accordance with it.

  Ossian Everett Mills

  Men, Good Man, Patient

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• We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our family and friends. Peace and warm-heartednes s can then spread through the community just as ripples radiate out across the water when you drop a pebble into a pond

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Change, Family

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• It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, transition is internal

  William Bridges

  Change, Team, People

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