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• To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked so long as misery and illiteracy exist, and so long as the possessors of power continue to carry on with impunity their policy of collective imbecilization through the mass media.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Media, Long, Giving

  Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.14, NYU Press

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• I grew up raised in church, my parents are both traveling ministers. They blocked out MTV which was fine, but I'd find myself figuring out who New Kids On The Block were.

  Katy Perry

  Block, Kids, Mtv

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• Play, creativity, art, spontaneity, all these experiences are their own rewards and are blocked when we perform for reward or punishment, profit or loss.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Art, Creativity, Loss

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.45, Penguin

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• He [Wilhelm Reich] believed that the individual's walk, stance, and breath patterns revealed a specific character type. Reich thought chronic muscular tension indicated repression and blocked the expression of affect. An example is the tight holding of the chest area as a sign of repressed feelings of need and longing.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Character, Expression, Feelings

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• As a citizen I might be well-behaved and have nothing salacious or radical about me, I might be a total bore, but I might suffer somehow if other people are being spied on and blocked from doing important work that might have a collective benefit down the road. The personal doesn't necessarily translate to the social.

  Astra Taylor

  People, Suffering, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We killed 5 terrorists, one committed twicide, The other 2 have been blocked by twitter.

  Joseph Ole Lenku

  Terrorist, Committed, Has Beens

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• Your fellowship with God flows freely when you're willing to forgive, but it gets blocked by unforgiveness.

  Joyce Meyer

  Forgiving, Fellowship, Flow

  Twitter post from Oct 20, 2012

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• Buddha nature, is like the sun which is always shining, always present, though often obscured. We are blocked from our natural light by the clouds of thought and longing and fear; the overcast of the conditioned mind; the hurricane of I am.

  Stephen Levine

  Clouds, Light, Shining

  Stephen Levine (2010). “A Gradual Awakening”, p.6, Anchor

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• The deduction of effect from cause is often blocked by some insuperable extrinsic obstacle: the true causes may be quite unknown. Nowhere in life is this so common as in war, where the facts are seldom fully known and the underlying motives even less so.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, May, Causes

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.156, Princeton University Press

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• When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.

  Chris Weidman

  Focus, Brain, Rooms

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• The people of Earth are emerging from an amnesiac-like state of collective shock, which has blocked the influx of spiritual knowledge into the human gene pool. And while it is quite obvious to many that “You create your reality”, the vast majority of humans still need to be awakened from the unconsciously controlled trance of powerlessness that they voluntarily took on.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Spiritual, Reality, People

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.22, New World Library

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• And then--a Day as huge
  As Yesterdays in pairs,
  Unrolled its horror in my face--
  Until it blocked my eyes

  Emily Dickinson

  Patience, Gratitude, Eye

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.168, Harvard University Press

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• A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked.

  David A. Cooper

  Spiritual, Kindness, Simple

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• If you are always waiting to be, do, or have what you want, your energy becomes blocked. Your body may reflect this in excess weight or other physical problems. Express yourself directly. Set clear boundaries with other people and do what you need to do to take good care of yourself. Energy will then move freely through your body and this circulation will dissolve any excess weight. The more you are willing to be yourself, the less you'll need to use food as a substitute nurturer. You will be receiving the natural nurturing of the universe.

  Shakti Gawain

  Being Yourself, Moving, People

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• This is what Zen means by being detached—not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Reflection, Water

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wall, Hate, Understanding

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2015). “The Radical King”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• I think every writer struggles in some way with writers block. The trick is to plan out what you are going to say beforehand. I found out that if you make an outline you're much less likely to get blocked when you get into the middle of the story.

  Rick Riordan

  Block, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: starraptureblog.wordpress.com

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• Some days are diamonds, some days are rocks. Some doors are opened, some roads are blocked. Sundowns are golden, then fade away. And if I never do nothing, I'll get you back someday.

  Tom Petty

  Rocks, Doors, Golden

  Song: Walls

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• I've always thought it was important not to attach too much superstition to the space where you're writing, because once you get into the mindset that you can only do it a certain way in a certain place, your creativity can get blocked.

  Sadie Jones

  Writing, Creativity, Space

  "My space". Interview with Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2008.

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• People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Wall, Names, People

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• It's not bad to get blocked, it's terrible to stay blocked

  Ken Norton, Jr.

  Terrible

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• To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

  Rollo May

  Lazy, Coward, Persons

  Rollo May (2009). “Man's Search for Himself”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.

  Kate Atkinson

  Writing, Names, Clothes

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• If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines. Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate. In other words, you hold onto your values, but you do it much more inclusively, humbly and in an open ended way. Suffering takes you there.

  Richard Rohr

  Years, Knowing, Abuse

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• ...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.

  Henry Miller

  Believe, Miracle, Noses

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