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  Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Letting Go

  "Turning On The Light At Times Of Loss" by Anne Naylor, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2010.

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• Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Keys, Swings, Doors

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  Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

  Golda Meir

  Motivational, Happiness, Happy

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• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wise, Inspirational Life, New Beginnings

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Become Your Best”, p.145, Jaico Publishing House

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  We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

  Howard Zinn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press

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• Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Life, Motivational, Change

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• You are the luminous mystery in which the entire universe with its forms and phenomena arises and subsides. When this realization dawns there is a complete transformation of your personal self into your universal self . . . the complete loss of all fear, including death. You have become a being who radiates love the same way the sun radiates light. You have finally arrived at the place from which your journey began.

  Deepak Chopra

  Loss, Journey, Light

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: The Essence of Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence”, p.139, Harmony

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• When we genuinely believe that inner transformation is God's work and not ours, we can put to rest our passion to set others straight.

  Richard J. Foster

  Believe, Passion

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Life, People, Training

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• I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

  Rick Warren

  Change, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 17, 2012

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  Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

  Benjamin Spock

  Positive, Family, Trust

  The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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• The emotional wisdom of the heart is simple. When we accept our human feelings, a remarkable transformation occurs. Tenderness and wisdom arise naturally and spontaneously. Where we once sought strength over others, now our strength becomes our own; where we once sought to defend ourselves, we laugh.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Simple, Emotional

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• Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Change, Too Late

  Seth Godin (2008). “Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us”, p.119, Penguin

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• Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Life, Change

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.7, Random House

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• You cant have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

  Cory Booker

  Spiritual, Spiritual Transformation, Cant

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• I don't want to use the word reorganization. Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.

  Lou Gerstner

  Change, Moving, Mean

  "In Focus: Lou Gerstner". Interview with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. July 2, 2004.

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• When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Thinking, Self

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

  Edgar Degas

  Memories, Imagination, Draws

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• Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Politics, Mankind, Liberalism

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• Where there is love, there is revolution, because love is transformation from moment to moment.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Revolution, Moments

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1954). “The First and Last Freedom”, Castrovilli Giuseppe

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• Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.

  Hans Hofmann

  Art, Reality, Magic

  Hans Hofmann, Sara T. Weeks, Bartlett H. Hayes (1967). “Search for the Real: And Other Essays”, p.40, MIT Press

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• If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other hand, my ruling disposition is obedience to God, I perceive Him to be at work for my perfecting in everything that happens to me.

  Oswald Chambers

  Faith, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Biblical Ethics / The Moral Foundations of Life / The Philosophy of Sin: Ethical Principles for the Christian Life”, p.207, Discovery House

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• Being aware of your breath forces you into the present moment - the key to all inner transformation. Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Breathing, Keys

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.150, Penguin

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• A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

  Stanislav Grof

  Real, Community, Society

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