“... keep practicing. After a great deal of practice, we no longer think about all the necessary movements we must make; they become part of our existence. Before reaching that stage, however, you must practice and repeat. And if that's not enough, you must practice and repeat some more.” IfsThinkingEnoughDealsExistencePracticeStageMovementRepeatsReaching Author:Paulo Coelho
“People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals featuring pentagrams, swords, and invocations. That's fine, people need to give free reign to their imagination and to go through certain stages. Anyone who gets through those stages without being deceived will eventually get in touch with the Tradition.” PeopleNeedsGivingChildrenStoriesFilmSpiritCertainEvilImaginationStageFineTraditionParanormalFairyRitualWitchPossessedReignDeceivedEvil SpiritsInvocationBeing DeceivedPentagrams Author:Paulo Coelho
“Whenever a religion tightens it's rules, a significant number of people break away and go in search of more freedom in their search for spiritual contact.” PeopleSpiritualNumbersBreakSignificantContactSignificant Numbers Author:Paulo Coelho
“If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female soul, ritual involving dance, fire, water, air, earth, songs, music, flowers, and beauty.” PeopleIfsNeedsSoulEarthTogetherMotherSongWaterFireAirFlowerFemaleRitualAdoreInvolving Author:Paulo Coelho
“During any dance to which we surrender with joy, the brain loses it's controlling power, and the heart takes up the reins of the body.” HeartBodyJoyLosesBrainSurrenderReinsControlling Power Author:Paulo Coelho
“Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.” WorldMomentsMovingSoundHappeningsRhythm Author:Paulo Coelho
“The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.” BehaviorEssencePatternsIllnessInsatiableFreezing Book:Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process Source: Newurotic Distortion of the Creative Process
“Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment.” AbilityEnvironmentFlexibleNormalityChanging Environment Author:Lawrence S. Kubie
“Don't mind if I fall apart. There's more room in a broken heart.” IfsMindHeartFallRoomsBrokenFalling Apart Author:Carly Simon
“If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.” IfsThinkingNice Author:Alice Roosevelt Longworth