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• Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible.

  Rajneesh

  Acceptance, Humanity, Spirituality

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• Some people find the experience and practice of compassion as a spiritual discipline to be a more direct route to the transformation of the heart than prayer. It is not that prayer does not or should not play a role in their lives, but their way to the opening of the heart lies through deeds of compassion. "Just do it" summarizes this path of transformation.

  Marcus Borg

  Spiritual, Prayer, Lying

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• In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Self Esteem, Ego

  Ken Wilber (2004). “The Simple Feeling of Being: Visionary, Spiritual, and Poetic Writings”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• The word religion comes from an origin which means "coming together." But priesthood has been doing just the opposite, it has created splits in man, not oneness. Religion means creating in man an organic unity; it has nothing to do with God, it has something to do with you. It has nothing to do with worship, it has something to do with a transformation of your own consciousness.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Men, Opposites

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• To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends upon meditation. in order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Teaching, Buddhism

  "Dzogchen: Heart Essence of the Great Perfection" by Dalai Lama, Snow Lion Publications, 2004.

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• In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Humanity, Growing, Evolution

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• The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of our time, who is in many ways humiliated and oppressed, and to orientate in a Christian way cultural, social, and ethical transformations that are unfolding in the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Men, Humanity

  "Pope Benedict XVI on Evangelization". streetevangelization.com.

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• That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the Good News and moving towards the full unity of all Christians in order to offer a more credible testimony of the Gospel.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Moving, Order

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• Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past, who is absolutely discontinuous with the past. He has no desire. And when there is no desire, for the first time you live

  Rajneesh

  Past, Desire, Mutation

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• My message, my key, my golden key to transform your energies, is creativity. Be more and more creative, and slowly slowly you will see a transformation happening of its own accord. Your mind will disappear, your body will have a totally different feel to it, and constantly you will remain aware that you are separate, that you are a pure witness.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Keys, Creative

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• A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Light

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Future Evolution of Man: The Divine Life on Earth”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

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• True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction and false social realities. We have to retreat into our own cocoons and come face-to-face with who we are. We have to turn toward our own inner darkness. For only by abandoning its attachments and facing the darkness does the caterpillar's body begin to spread out and its light, beautiful wings begin to form.

  Julia Hill

  Beautiful, Reality, Light

  "The Legacy of Luna". Book by Julia Butterfly Hill, April 1, 2000.

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• It doesn't happen all the time, but when I'm playing well it's as if my eyes change. I can feel it. I just feel like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-a transformation happens, I'm a totally different human being. I don't hear anybody, I don't see anybody, nothing bothers me, nothing is going to interfere with what I'm about to do.

  Jane Blalock

  Eye, Golf, Hyde

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• The age of the earth was thus increased from a mere score of millions [of years] to a thousand millions and more, and the geologist who had before been bankrupt in time now found himself suddenly transformed into a capitalist with more millions in the bank than he knew how to dispose of ... More cautious people, like myself, too cautious, perhaps, are anxious first of all to make sure that the new [radioactive] clock is not as much too fast as Lord Kelvin's was too slow.

  William Johnson Sollas

  Science, Years, People

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• What we see in history is not a transformation, a passing of one race into another, but entirely new and perfect creations, which the ever-youthful productivity of nature sends forth from the invisible realm of Hades.

  Adolf Bastian

  Nature, Science, Race

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• Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.

  Sarah MacLean

  Integrity, Inspiration, Journey

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• If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

  John E. Lewis

  Inspirational, Motivation, Wise Man Once Said

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• Once you say 'I want to find Truth', all your life will be deeply affected by it. All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Decision

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• Living a spiritual life requires a change of heart, a conversion. Such a conversion may be marked by a sudden inner change, or it can take place through a long, quiet process of transformation. But it always involves an inner experience of oneness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Heart, Oneness

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, HarperCollins

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• The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Goal, Unity

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may be claimed that the theory of descent is lacking, therefore, in the most essential feature that it needs to place the theory on a scientific basis, this must be admitted.

  Thomas Hunt Morgan

  May, Essentials, Needs

  Thomas Hunt Morgan (1903). “Evolution and adaptation”

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• All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

  Karl Marx

  Human Nature, Humans

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1976). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works”, International Pub

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• Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart

  Pope John Paul II

  Heart, World, Condescension And

  Pope John Paul II (1994). “Letters to My Brother Priests”, Midwest Theological Forum

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• Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who hated their religion. The reason why they use the name Israel, the Star of David, hijacking, stealing the identity of Judaism and the Jewish people is in order to gain a legitimacy for their existence that should lead people to say, 'oh, it is God given to them' and that they should use fear and intimidate people from speaking out against their actions because they will call those that do anti Semitic; it couldn't be anything further from the Truth.

  Yisroel Dovid Weiss

  Religious, Stars, Islamic

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• If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.

  Marquis de Sade

  Death, Real, Simple

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