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• The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.... This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Passion, Men

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• Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Meditation, Unions

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• Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have .. the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality .. which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Acceptance, Reality, Needs

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• Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.

  Stephen Hawking

  Light, Blue, Law

  "The Grand Design". Book by Stephen Hawking, 2010.

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• A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world.

  Janine Benyus

  Nature, Writing, Animal

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• Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure of dancing with somebody in an unplanned and spontaneous way, when you're free to invent and they're free to invent and you're neither one hampering the other - that's a very pleasant social form.

  Steve Paxton

  Dance, Moving, Thinking

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• Sensitivity to the immense needs of humanity brings with it a spontaneous rejection of the arms race, which is incompatible with the all out struggle against hunger, sickness, under-development and illiteracy.

  Pope John Paul II

  Peace, Struggle, Ubuntu

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• I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Jazz, Composer

  "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

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• Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

  Stan Getz

  Music, Art, Giving

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• To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged.

  Aliza Sherman

  Being Yourself, Communication, Media

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• Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.

  David Deida

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Politics are, as it were, the market place and the price mechanism of all social demands - though there is no guarantee that a just price will be struck; and there is nothing spontaneous about politics- it depends on deliberate and continuous activity.

  Bernard Crick

  Guarantees That, Political, Demand

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.23, University of Chicago Press

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• We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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• When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Children, Past, Ideas

  Peter Matthiessen (1998). “Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Heart, Compassion

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• The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'.
  Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness.
  To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion,
  to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.

  Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

  Spiritual, Nature, Buddhist

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• Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you're plugged in, a spontaneous combustion occurs that 'artists' don't have a monopoly on.

  Judith Orloff

  Mother, Creativity, Artist

  Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.192, Harmony

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• Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly repetitive and structured practice--perfecting their shooting, dribbling, and passing and running plays over and over again--and agrees to play a carefully defined role on the court. This is the critical lesson of improve, too, and it is also a key to understanding a puzzle of Millennium Challenge: spontaneity isn't random.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Basketball, Running, Practice

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, books.google.ru. April 3, 2007.

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• Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger

  Pico Iyer

  Writing, Parent, Anomalies

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• I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something I’d just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.

  Marilyn

  Crush, Art, Real

  "When you're famous you run into human nature in a raw kind of way" by Richard Meryman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2007.

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• Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

  Joseph Pilates

  Zest, Daily Tasks, Mind

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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• This system in which a child is constantly moving objects with his hands and actively exercising his senses, also takes into account a child's special aptitude for mathematics. When they leave the material, the children very easily reach the point where they wish to write out the operation. They can thus carryout an abstract mental operation and acquire a kind of natural and spontaneous inclination for mental calculations.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Moving, Writing

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• I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Girl, Silly, Holiday

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• Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

  Henri Poincare

  Discovery, Generations, Spontaneity

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• Your life is perfect, it is a perfect plan; it is a spontaneous miracle. It is both every moment.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Perfect, Miracle, Life Is

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