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• We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

  Reid Hoffman

  Philosophy, Believe, Opportunity

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• The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy. When we realize that a perfect equilibrium in our lives might not be the best basis for making art, then we can begin to re-vision our stress points. So rather than try to rid your life of tension, consider doing something more creative with it.

  Shaun McNiff

  Art, Stress, Opportunity

  Shaun McNiff (1998). “Trust the Process”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• A complete transformation seemed to have place in my life overnight. It was quite staggering, and thenceforward visitors and invitations continued to pour in daily until they became a source of grievance to our landlady, who was obliged to engage an extra servant to respond to the battering of powdered footmen on her humble and somewhat flimsy door.

  Lillie Langtry

  Humble, Doors, Visitors

  Lillie Langtry (2000). “The Days I Knew”, p.37, Panoply Publications

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• Danced healing rituals (in African village compounds, temple courtyards, dance-therapy studios, public theaters, and other social settings) reinvoke old traumas for exorcism and the transformation of fear, convince people that evil is gone or possible to dissipate, and reaffirm communal solidarity and a sense of well-being.

  Judith Lynne Hanna

  Healing, Evil, People

  Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.217, Rowman Altamira

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• The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Ideas, Evil

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• The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

  Dallas Willard

  Welcome, Standing, Effects

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• Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

  Laozi

  Self, Giving, Greatest Gifts

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Nobody wants to do it - not real change, not soul change, not the painful molecular change required to truly become who you need to be. Nobody ever does real transformation for fun. Nobody ever does it on a dare. You do it only when your back is so far against the wall that you have no choice anymore.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Wall, Fun, Real

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• So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Force Fields, Meditation

  Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Today we need whatever methods or help we can receive to allow the Christian message to take us to a deeper level of transformation.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Needs, Levels

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• If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

  C. Wagner

  Three, Social Transformation, Violence

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• is a process of inner transformation, a conversation initiated by God and leading, if we consent, to divine union. One's way of seeing reality changes in the process. A restructuring of consciousness takes place which empowers one to perceive, relate and respond with increasing sensitivity to the divine presence in, through, and beyond everything that exists.

  Thomas Keating

  Reality, Empowering, Unions

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• Kyoto is dead and has been dead, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't done some real damage and won't continue to do some real damage," "If global warming turns out to be a problem, which I doubt, it won't be solved by making ourselves poorer through energy rationing." "It will be solved through building resiliency and capability into society and through long-term technological innovation and transformation.

  Myron Ebell

  Real, Mean, Kyoto

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• We are living at a time when the Prostestant church is rediscovering the truth that transformation in Christ occurs through the disciplines of formation. Finally, Adele Calhoun has pulled all of these together into one volume, complete with clear definitions and practices of a variety of ways that God uses to grow our lives. No longer do you have to root through scattered pieces of paper, nor a chapter here and there to get the big picture of the tried and true disciplines. This is one resource you will want to have at your fingertips.

  Greg Oden

  Practice, Roots, Discipline

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• I love my job. It's such a privilege to be able to play such complicated characters. Growing up, I wanted to be a billion different things. I realized in order for that to happen, I don't have to be them all because the characters I want to play require such research and such a transformation to make that work - that's something that I love doing.

  Ashley Bell

  Jobs, Growing Up, Character

  "Ashley Bell: Passion for a Skill". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My ex-student, Idit Harel, who wrote a book, "Children Designs," has a documented story of a kid who was very shy, isolated and didn't talk much to other kids. She was a little overweight, and the other kids looked down on her for that reason.But then she made a discovery about how to do something on the computer. The discovery was picked up by other kids, and within a few weeks there was a total transformation. This kid was now in demand. And that changed her feeling about herself.

  Seymour Papert

  Children, Book, Kids

  "Sunday Interview - Seymour Papert/ Computers in the Lives of Our Children/ an Mit Mathematician and Philosopher Is Exploring How Technology Can Educate the Next Generation - and Their Parents". www.sfgate.com. February 2, 1997.

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• Chemistry comes about through the transformation of earth, air, fire and water. All chemistry is just movement within those things, and so we experience the joys and the sorrows of hot and cold, and dry and moist, because of these chemical transformations. In a similar way, we create and experience a world of time, space, motion and energy, through our intuitions, our thoughts, our sensing and our feeling.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Air, Hot And Cold, Space

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Medicine could have pretty far-reaching effects once we begin to look at the kinds of things that people can do to induce transformation in their thinking, their sensing, their intuiting and their feelings - and whether there's some power there that can be unleashed that would cause blockages that were primarily put in place through thought to be let go of.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Letting Go, Thinking, Medicine

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

  Dallas Willard

  Spiritual, Jesus, Christ

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• Knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living manifestation. To acquire mystical knowledge means to undergo a transformation; one could even say that the knowledge is the transformation.

  Fritjof Capra

  Mean, Way, Certain

  Fritjof Capra (2010). “The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism”, p.282, Shambhala Publications

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• The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Real, Fall, Memorable

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• Change is more often a rapid transition between two stable states than a continuous transformation at slow and steady rates. . . .Change occurs in large leaps following a slow accumulation of stress that a system resists until it reaches the breaking point. Heat water, and it eventually boils. Oppress the workers more and more and bring on the revolution.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Stress, Two, Point Break

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• If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.

  Richard Lovelace

  Wine, Heart, Broken

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• Real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

  Alan Watts

  Laughter, Real, Anxiety

  Alan Watts (2011). “In My Own Way: An Autobiography”, p.57, New World Library

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• Every therapeutic intervention is an act of social transformation.

  Harville Hendrix

  Social Transformation, Intervention, Therapeutic

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