Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 36

• When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.

  Scout Cloud Lee

  Life, Choices, World

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• I heard the spring light whisper
  Above the dancing stream,
  The world is made forever
  in likeness of a dream.

  Bliss Carman

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

  William Blum

  Inspirational, Life, Democracy

  William Blum (2006). “Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower”, p.13, Zed Books

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• Zeus does not bring all men's plans to fulfillment.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Life, Failure

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• Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?

  Amy Lowell

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  Amy Lowell (1955). “Complete poetical works: With an introd. by Louis Untermeyer”

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• Behold this day. It is yours to make.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Life, This Day

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• I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

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• Life is beautiful. He who reads that
  As in the window of some distant, speeding train
  Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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• Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Army

  1989 In the International Herald Tribune, 2 Oct.

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• Of all the journeys to undertake, the one of self-compassion is one of utmost importance for long-term well-being.

  Anne Foy

  Inspirational, Life, Journey

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• Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Law

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• The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Awakening

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• If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.56, Penguin

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• I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.

  Dafydd ap Gwilym

  Inspirational, Life, Mirrors

  "Bards and Heroes" by Carl Lofmark, Felinfach: Llanerch, (p. 96), 1989.

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• Into the field of
  Yellow flowers
  The red setting sun!

  Soseki Natsume

  Inspirational, Life, Flower

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• Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.156, New World Library

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• Joy and woe are woven fine,
  A clothing for the soul divine.
  Under every grief and pine
  Runs a joy with silken twine.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Life, Running

  William Blake (1868). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, p.98

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• Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Secret

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  ‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

  Salman Rushdie

  Inspirational, Life, Ideas

  "Salman Rushdie Voices Support for Charlie Hebdo After Paris Shooting". www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• How do we fight back? By creating art.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

  Emily Carr

  Inspirational, Life, Clouds

  1941 Klee Wyck, ch.17,'Salt Water'.

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• I find it discouraging - and a bit depressing - when I notice the unequal treatment afforded by the media to UFO believers on the one hand, and on the other, to those who believe in an invisible supreme being who inhabits the sky.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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