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• Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts happen. Take responsibility for yourself each step of the way. Trust the new shape and form of your world

  Melody Beattie

  Moving, Responsibility, Movement

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• Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

  Meher Baba

  Mirrors, Expression, Mind

  "Meher Baba on God-realization: The Practical Side of Self-realization".

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• Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action.

  Michel Foucault

  Practice, Political, Use

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• I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.

  Anne Lamott

  Grateful, Culture, Littles

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• Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Art, Revealing

  "Baryshnikov shows his dance photography in Miami". Interview with Jennifer Kay, www.boston.com. February 23, 2012.

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• Generosity is not limited to the giving of material things. We can be generous with our kindness and receptivity. Generosity can mean the simple giving of a smile or extending ourselves to really listen to a friend. Paradoxically, even being willing to receive the generosity of others can be a form of generosity.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Kindness, Mean, Simple

  Gil Fronsdal (2008). “The Issue at Hand”, p.34, Insight Meditation Center

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• When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.

  Deepak Chopra

  Choices, Illusion

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• All forms of books make a valuable contribution to education and the dissemination of culture and information. The diversity of books and editorial content is a source of enrichment that we must support through appropriate public policies and protect from uniformity.

  Irina Bokova

  Book, Diversity, Support

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• Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

  Donald Miller

  Art, Robots, Great Art

  Twitter post from May 28, 2015

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• Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wise, Men, Fool

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• I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

  Italo Calvino

  May, Assuming, Modernism

  Italo Calvino (2010). “Invisible Cities”, p.123, Random House

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• You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Daughter, Father, Gossip

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• I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings.

  Werner Herzog

  Exotic, Used, Surroundings

  "Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo". Book by Werner Herzog, 2009.

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• All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Determination, Self

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: The Art of Expressing the Human Body”, p.14, Tuttle Publishing

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• Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the age is more lacking. The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious, which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present. The artist seizes on this image and, in raising it from deepest unconsciousness, he brings it into relation with conscious values, thereby transforming it until it can be accepted by the minds of his contemporaries according to their powers.

  Carl Jung

  Art, Lying, Mind

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• For mountain and stream, tree and leaf, root and blossom, every form in nature is echoed in us and originates in the soul whose being is eternity and is hidden from us but none the less gives itself to us for the most part in the power of love and creation.

  Hermann Hesse

  Roots, Giving, Tree

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• Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine.

  Carl Jung

  Medicine, Enchantment

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.4, North Atlantic Books

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• We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Running, Children, Insanity

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• The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reflection, Essence, Beauty Within

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.98, New World Library

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• The facts are in, the science is beyond question. Sugar in all its forms is the root cause of our obesity epidemic and most of the chronic disease sucking the life out of our citizens and our economy - and, increasingly, the rest of the world. You name it, it’s caused by sugar: heart disease, cancer, dementia, type 2 diabetes, depression, and even acne, infertility and impotence.

  Mark Hyman, M.D.

  Cancer, Heart, Epidemics

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• Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

  John Dewey

  Spiritual, Government, Democracy

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (2008). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1882-1888. Early essays and Leibniz's new essays concerning the human understanding”, p.240, SIU Press

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• The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Mind, Responsible, Structure

  Werner Heisenberg (1971). “Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations”

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• I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and voicing something important, it's right to do it. It could still be done in such a way that it's not aggressive or overly didactic. I'm trying to find that form.

  Shirin Neshat

  Artist, Justice, Important

  "The exotic and the everyday" by Richard Williams, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2002.

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• I could be just a writer very easily. I am not a writer. I am a screenwriter, which is half a filmmaker... But it is not an art form, because screenplays are not works of art. They are invitations to others to collaborate on a work of art.

  Paul Schrader

  Art, Writing, Half

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• Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

  Gautama Buddha

  Emptiness

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