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I was brought up Catholic. I'm lapsed. From the age of three I was with the nuns. Now I'm an atheist...

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A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliv...

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We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn't stop us from wiping it away with a wet...

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The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of th...

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And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, t...

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That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has en...

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How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the my...

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Perhaps many things inside you have been transformed; perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your ...

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The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit...

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until onl...

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I long for the Church to be more truly itself, and for me this involves changing its stance on war, ...

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Rowan WilliamsChrist on Trial: How the Gospel Unsettles Our Judgement

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

I have no doubt that your acceptance of Christ coincided with some very positive changes in your lif...

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I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to...

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It takes a few days for the transformation to be complete, depending on how much venom is in the blo...

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I hated these visits, because I kept feeling the visitors measuring my fat and stringy hair against ...

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Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sig...

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We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all...

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It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, tra...

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

For the ethical, political activism was seductive because it seemed to offer the possibility that on...

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Tom RobbinsSkinny Legs and All

What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything ...

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Yukio MishimaThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Cease striving. Then there will be transformation.

So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the tra...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Zhuangzi's wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condolences, he found Zhuangzi sitting with his ...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

A child, obeying his father and mother, goes wherever he is told, east or west, south or north. And ...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.'You must want to fly so much that you are will...

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How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.'You must want to fly so much that you are will...

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Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made ...

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?I blow my nose. take off they pa...

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Suddenly you realize that you are the mother of the Universe, eager to protect, transform and care e...

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Enlightenment is the transformation that brings out the highest human qualities. It is the process t...

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Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpilla...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Random acts of kindness, however small it may be can transform the world.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind usis a part o...

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I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women ther...

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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

There are women’s voices that sound like poetic, unearthly echoes. Then they change. The eyes change...

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And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the ...

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To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpil...

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He turns the key.Presto!It opens this book of odd taleswhich transform the Brothers Grimm.Transform?...

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I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zom...

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Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure Of The Noble Bachelor

By the time I had complete my 22nd year, I was a new man - an atheist.

He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish...

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C. S. LewisThe Voyage of the Dawn Treader

The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in th...

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Manipulating or controlling others through the use of one's illness or suffering,for example,was-and...

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Caroline MyssDefy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted.Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly.Did he do somethin...

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Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted.Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly.Did he do somethin...

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Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!‘I will live in the Pas...

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But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a ...

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To be American is to be part of a dialogical and democratic operation that grapples with the challen...

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When something goes wrong, what's the best course of action? To change your direction. The word repe...

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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more

Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn ...

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To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness." Vincellent"Love the world as you...

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Your body, which is bonding millions of molecules every second, depends on transformation. Breathing...

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Deepak ChopraThe Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India's transformation in the new millenniu...

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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 on...

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The Augusteum warns me not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, w...

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What holds true for the individual holds true for a society. It is never static; if it does not grow...

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Erich FrommThe Revolution of Hope: Toward a Humanized Technology

Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously gave us the ‘God is dead’ phrase was interested in the sources of ...

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Frans de WaalThe Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a ...

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To do for yourself the best that you have it in you to do—to grit your teeth and clench your fists i...

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Frederick BuechnerThe Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days

How many nights must it takeone such as me to learnthat we aren’t, after all, madefrom that bird tha...

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If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformat...

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It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your...

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Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.

Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what l...

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...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited.

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

He thought that it was all over, finished, done with. Andrew had never yet had reason to observe the...

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Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should...

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Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.

Speed to fail should be every entrepreneur's motto. When you finally find the one idea that can't be...

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Every threat to the status quo is an opportunity in disguise.

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so th...

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The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead...

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A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic...

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Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new ent...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

All businesses -- no matter if they make dog food or software -- don't sell products, they sell solu...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you lov...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive break...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have some...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn'...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

Data may disappoint, but it never lies.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

The business world is littered with the fossils of companies that failed to evolve. Disrupt or be di...

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation

A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage.

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Jay SamitDisrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation