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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you’ve never explored before, what human nature is like.
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Contribution #4259
The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.
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I visualize therefore I become.
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Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
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Contribution #4225
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
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The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers, but most of all the world needs dreamers that do.
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Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.
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The Practice of Dzogchen
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
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Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
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Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
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Water has the capability to spliter: it needs a splash.
It takes solitude, under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
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Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.
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If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?
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The Courage to Create
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The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed.
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Spiritual destiny is manifested in the lives of those who stand out from the masses and actually do something, who live a creative life for the benefit of others.
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafarer on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
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Samsara, the cyclic existence, is the slavery that the memory has established over the life-force.
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oral transmission
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The mathematics are usually considered as being the very antipodes of Poesy. Yet Mathesis and Poesy are of the closest kindred, for they are both works of the imagination.
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There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
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No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
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We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Published in 1927
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Contribution #2779
If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
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In life, many thoughts are born in the course of a moment, an hour, a day. Some are dreams, some visions. Often, we are unable to distinguish between them. To some, they are the same; however, not all dreams are visions. Much energy is lost in fanciful dreams that never bear fruit. But visions are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life. Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision, one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. The spiritual side of life knows everyone's heart and who to trust. How could vision ever be given to someone to harbor if that person could not be trusted to carry it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.
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If you can’t visualize it, don’t build it.
It's not just enough to change the players. We've gotta change the game.
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podcast, Jan. 8, 2007
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It's time for greatness -- not for greed. It's a time for idealism -- not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.
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Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
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There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
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There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
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All we have to do to create the future is to change the nature of our conversations, to go from blame to ownership, and from bargaining to commitment, and from problem solving to possibility.
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From interview about his book Community and Belonging
Contribution #2337
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.
Without a vision, the people perish.
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Bible
Proverbs
29:18
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Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
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I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.
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Five things everywhere under heaven constitute perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
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Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be.
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation). There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
The new meaning of soul is creativity and mysticism.
These will become the foundation of the new psychological type and with him or her will come the new civilization.
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
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No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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If my mind can conceive it, and my
heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body. In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children (if and as we choose) but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence—a new relationship to the universe. Sexuality, politics, intelligence, power, motherhood, work, community, intimacy will develop new meanings; thinking itself will be transformed. This is where we have to begin.
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Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Published by Norton
, 1995
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Contribution #749
To apply the golden rule adequately, we need knowledge and imagination. We need to know what effect our actions have on the lives of others. And we need to be able to imagine ourselves, vividly and accurately, in the other person's place on the receiving end of the action. With knowledge, imagination, and the golden rule, we can progress far in our moral thinking.
I believe in humanity. We are an incredible species. We're still just a child creature, we're still being nasty to each other. And all children go through those phases. We're growing up, we're moving into adolescence now. When we grow up - man, we're going to be something!
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Hollywood Blvd. "Star" Ceremony; September 4, 1985
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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
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Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.
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We are a landscape of all we have seen.
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I shut my eyes in order to see.
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You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?"
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You can see a lot by just looking.
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The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
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It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.
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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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Dreams are extremely important. You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.
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So many of our dreams seem impossible, then improbable, then inevitable.
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In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.
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Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.
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No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities – always see them, for they're always there.
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The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something… To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
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If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
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What does vision look like in a person?
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