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“Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.”

Love Self Desire Interest Vision Fortune Casts Ill Stranger Worldly Self Interest Hinder Worldly Desires

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.”

Looks Desire Vision Conditions Ego Relation Add Competition Glasses Vanity Distortion Corresponding Cloudy

Book:The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957

Source: The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957

“Business is a creative and therefore spiritual endeavor. Great entrepreneurs enter the field of business in the same way great artists enter the field of art. With their business creation, entrepreneurs express their spiritual desire for self-realization, evolutionary passion for self- fulfillment, and creative vision of a new world. The entrepreneur's business is their artwork. The creation of business is as creative as any creation in art. In fact, building a business may be the most creative human activity.”

“I, a pilgrim of eternity, stand before Thee, O eternal One. Let me not seek to deaden or destroy the desire for Thee that disturbs my heart. Let me rather yield myself to its constraint and go where it leads me. Make me wise to see all things today under the form of eternity, and make me brave to face all the changes in my life which such a vision may entail: through the grace of Christ my Saviour. Amen”

Heart May Today Faces Form Desire Christ Vision Grace Wise My Heart Eternal All Things Let Me Eternity Brave Thee Yield Constraints Saviour Pilgrim Amen Leading Me Changing My Life

Book:A diary of private prayer

Source: A diary of private prayer

“I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.”

Dream Reality Desire Vision Lord Dreamer Modesty Preference Follow Your Dreams Visions And Dreams

Author:Khalil Gibran

“As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.”

Mind Body Light Eye Desire Causes Natural Vision Becoming Drink Possessed Food And Drink Truth Of God

Book:The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Sacred Writings of Origen (Annotated Edition)

“Revolutionary feminism embraces men who are able to change, who are capable of responding mutually in a subject-to-subject encounter where desire and fulfillment are in no way linked to coercive subjugation. This feminist vision of the sexual imaginary is the space few men seem able to enter.”

Men Way Seems Able Desire Space Vision Feminism Subjects Capable Embrace Feminist Fulfillment Revolutionary Encounters Imaginary Linked Responding Subjugation

Book:Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

“This swallowing up of life in nothingness, this obliteration of life by nothingness is what the emotion of malice ultimately desires. The eternal conflict between love and malice is the eternal contest between life and death. And this contest is what the complex vision reveals, as it moves from darkness to darkness.”

Moving Desire Emotion Vision Darkness Conflict Eternal Complexes Life And Death Nothingness Contests Malice Swallowing Between Life And Death

Book:The Complex Vision

Source: The Complex Vision

“Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire.”

“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

Inspirational Mean Faces Desire Vision Practice Perfection Dancing Dance Obstacles Generosity Inviting Choreographers Dance Performance

Author:Martha Graham

“Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but theres a feeling that life is interconnected, that theres life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.”

Feels Feelings Life Is Desire Term My Own Vision Tree Rocks Identity Losing Stones Dirt Interconnected

Author:Bill Viola

“To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live.... To stroll is to enjoy, it is to assume a mind-set, it is to admire the sublime pictures of unhappiness, of love, of joy, of graceful or grotesque portraits; it is to plunge one's vision to the depths of a thousand existences: young, it is to desire everything; old, it is to live the life of the young, to marry their passions.”

Mind Eye Young Joy Desire Passion Enjoy Walks Existence Vision Walking Thousand Behavior Assuming Depth Admire Live Life Unhappiness Leisure Portraits Sublime Plunge Grotesque Mind Set

Author:Honore de Balzac

“It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.”

“Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.”

Ifs Want Giving Kind Persons Real Desire Vision Creative One Thing Periods Giving Up Investing Significant Accomplished Businessman Tunnels Creative Person Tunnel Vision

Author:Steve Jobs

“Write down the area of your life that most needs your attention right now and then write out all the details you saw of your soul's vision for this part of your life. What will that part of your life look like? How will achieving your goal change your life? How will it change the life of those around you? When you reach your goal, when you fulfill that desire, what will it make room for? Write that all down.”

Needs Writing Looks Doe Soul Desire Goal Rooms Attention Vision Minutes Achieve Right Now Areas Details Your Soul Now And Then Changing Your Life Achieving Your Goals Reaching Your Goals

Author:Debbie Ford