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• Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds...

  Alice Meynell

  Spring, Wind, Sky

  Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”

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• I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.

  Jane Goodall

  Roots, Tree, Skins

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• Faith is the inspiration of nobleness, it is the strength of integrity; it is the life of love, and is everlasting growth for it; it is courage of soul, and bridges over for our crossing the gulf between worldliness and heavenly-mindedness; and it is the sense of the unseen, without which we could not feel God nor hope for heaven.

  William Mountford

  Faith, Integrity, Inspiration

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 220), 1895.

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• Americans did not acquire their fear neurosis as the result of a traumatic experience - war devasting their country, pestilence sweeping the land, famine wiping out helpless millions. Americans had to be taught to hate and fear an unseen enemy. The teachers were men in official positions, in government, men whom Americans normally trust without question.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Country, Teacher, Fear

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.154, Granta Books

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• You know, you have to start with hope...you don't get anywhere in this country without hope. So it's a necessity. What Barack says is that people have to understand hope isn't just blind optimism. It isn't passive. It isn't just sitting there waiting for things to get better. Hope is the vision that you have to have. It's the inspiration that moves people into action...There are more people engaged in this political process in this year than we've seen in my lifetime. And it is all because of hope because people believe in the possibility of something unseen.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Believe, Moving

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• True shamans live in a world that is alive with what is to rationalist sight unseen, a world pulsing with intelligence.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Sight, Alive, World

  Paula Gunn Allen (1991). “Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman's Sourcebook”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Men, Rely Upon

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.120, Rajpal & Sons

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• Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Destiny, Hands, Delay

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• Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

  John Milton

  Echoes, Nymphs, Shells

  'Comus' (1637) l. 230

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• Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.

  Abraham Cowley

  Lying, Night, Jewels

  Abraham Cowley (1806). “The Works ... Re-edited. - London, G. Kearsley 1806”, p.261

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• Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Art, Lying, Perfection

  'Discourses on Art' (ed. R. Wark, 1975) no. 6 (10 December 1774)

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• Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Waiting, Experience, Alive

  "Kandinsky" by Frank Whitford, Paul Hamlyn Ltd, London, 1967.

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• It is in the early morning hour that the unseen is seen, and that the far-off beauty and glory, vanquishing all their vagueness, move down upon us till they stand clear as crystal close over against the soul.

  Sarah Smiley

  Morning, Moving, Soul

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• Fantasy stories open our eyes to an unseen world and train our minds to see beyond the visible. In the New Testament context, this is where our real battles are fought. Good fantasy will reveal the hidden powers of evil that threaten the hero's life and upset his journey. Good fantasy focuses on how a hero finds victory when he learns that he can't win by himself, so he submits to the higher power in faith and obedience.

  Bryan Davis

  Real, Hero, Eye

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• A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Littles, Way, Silent

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Clouds, Nails

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• A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Prayer, Selfish

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Religious, Temporal Things

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• No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Opponents, Sides, Danger

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

  Philip Yancey

  Faith, Religious, Real

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

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• I've always been fascinated with marine geography and how deep things are. I was spellbound by the tsunami, for example, by the actual maps. There is just something about the unseen bottom of the sea that has always fascinated me, how deep is it.

  Joan Didion

  Marine, Sea, Example

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• As no cause remains without its due effect from greatest to least, from a cosmic disturbance down to the movement of your hand, and as like produces like, Karma is that unseen and unknown law which adjusts wisely, intelligently, and equitably each effect to its cause, tracing the latter back to its producer.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Karma, Hands, Law

  H. P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Key to Theosophy”, p.208, BookRix

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• Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.

  Andy Murray

  Letting Go, Prayer, Sacrifice

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• As our Father makes many a flower to bloom unseen in the lonely desert, [let us] do all that we can do, as under God's eye, though no other eye ever take note of it.

  Hudson Taylor

  Lonely, Father, Flower

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• The Hindu religion appears ... as a cathedral temple, half in ruins, noble in the mass, often fantastic in detail but always fantastic with a significance crumbling or badly outworn in places, but a cathedral temple in which service is still done to the Unseen and its real presence can be felt by those who enter with the right spirit.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Real, Details, Crumbling

  Sri Aurobindo (1970). “Letters on Yoga”, Lotus Press (WI)

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