Transformation Quotes - Page 40

• Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining, too confining. The insistence on bland impersonality and the widespread indifference to anything like the display of a unique human author in scientific exposition, have transformed the reading of most scientific papers into an act of tedious drudgery.

  David Mermin

  Reading, Science, Past

  "Boojums All the Way Through". Book by N. David Mermin, 1990.

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• In his annual economic report to Congress President Bush said that the transfer of American jobs overseas is actually part of a positive transformation that will enrich the U.S. economy over time. So basically, losing your job to someone else can be a good thing. Of course we'll see how he feels about that in November.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, President, Losing

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• Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Magic, Language, Method

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• Time is change, transformation, evolution.

  I. L. Peretz

  Evolution

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• In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.

  Bernie Glassman

  Growth, Way, Rejects

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• The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the environment can the livelihoods of those most dependent on it be sustained. We cannot allow economic and environmental concerns to be played off against each other.

  Petra Kelly

  Running, Rivers, Environmental

  Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr

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• Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.

  Jean Maalouf

  Kindness, Keys, Secret

  Jean Maalouf (2003). “The Healing Power of Kindness”, p.4, Twenty-Third Publications

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• Knowledge builds on the past and has its place. Wisdom is beyond time. It's the direct perception of reality as it is. And in this direct seeing of what is lies the potential of transformation-a transformation that is not merely a redecoration of the past but a transformation of humanity that embodies the eternally new.

  H. E Davey

  Lying, Past, Reality

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• Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth-or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance. The choice is not up to our opponents, but to us, and our willingness to face and work through them.

  Kenneth Cloke

  Inspiration, Choices, Growth

  Kenneth Cloke, Joan Goldsmith (2001). “Resolving conflicts at work: a complete guide for everyone on the job”, Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

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• To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.

  Jalaja Bonheim

  Dark, Knowing, Waiting

  Jalaja Bonheim (1997). “Aphrodite's Daughters: Women's Sexual Stories and the Journey of the Soul”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• Victory is the thought transformation resulting from comprehending that physical immortality...perpetual longevity, sans illness and aging...eternal, healthy, youthful life in your living flesh... is not a fantasy, but a practical and attainable possibility.

  Linda Goodman

  Healthy, Victory, Flesh

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• If we do not get control of our borders, by 2050 Americans of European descent will be a minority in the nation their ancestors created and built.

  Pat Buchanan

  Borders, Minorities, Descent

  "Pat Buchanan On Why He Shares Trump's Ideas On Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. May 5, 2016.

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• The next time you stand in front of a mirror and want to scream, try to remember that God made that face. That smile. Those big eyes...and chubby cheeks. You are His creation, called to reflect Him. Spiritual transformation doesn’t come from a diet program, a bottle, a makeover, or mask. It comes from an intimate relationship with the Savior. He...appreciates us for who we really are. So we can too.

  Luci Swindoll

  Spiritual, Eye, Mirrors

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• Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

  Martin Heidegger

  Philosophy, Able, World

  "Der Spiegel" Magazine, May 31, 1976.

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• Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest
  has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Thinking

  Interview with Judy Valente, www.pbs.org. November 11, 2011.

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• The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.

  Winona LaDuke

  Environmental, World, Assumption

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• Transformation comes in a lot of different forms, but going natural really helped me love myself.

  Jillian Hervey

  Different, Love Myself, Natural

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• When you have children, you realize that at the end it's all about passing on, about handing down. The process of letting go, not attachment, but appreciating the beauty and value in the change, the transformation.

  Andy Serkis

  Letting Go, Children, Attachment

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Acting is the great love of my life. It gives you permission to use all parts of yourself. Permission to be the hero, the love interest, the comedian, the villain. Transformation excites me. So does truth. Nothing is more thrilling, hilarious, and tragic than the truth. Those things motivated me to become an actor. Also, they always have the best food on set.

  Blake Griffin

  Hero, Giving, Great Love

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• In every moment, we make a choice about which direction we are going to go. Once we realize that this is a self-correcting and self-organizing universe, then we don't have to look any further than our own life circumstances, the relationships and situations that we are in, to begin the transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self, Choices, Looks

  Interview with John Robbins, foodrevolution.org. January 1, 2013.

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• The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive.

  Nhat Hanh

  Space, Self, Somewhere Else

  "Building a Community of Love: bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Bell Hooks, www.lionsroar.com. March 24, 2017.

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• Based on technological research and the transformation of nature, industrialization constantly goes forward, giving proof of incessant creativity. While certain enterprises develop and are concentrated, others die or change their location. Thus new social problems are created: professional or regional unemployment, redeployment and mobility of persons, permanent adaptation of workers and disparity of conditions in the different branches of industry.

  Pope Paul VI

  Creativity, Giving, Branches

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• Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Political, Historical

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• Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Psychedelic, Evolution

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• The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

  Terence McKenna

  Heaven, Agendas, Earth

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