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“It is absolutely essential that the oppressed participate in the revolutionary process with an increasingly critical awareness of their role as subjects of the transformation.”

Process Roles Subjects Awareness Essentials Transformation Critical Revolutionary Oppressed

Book:Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

“Silence is essential for deep transformation. It allows the practice of conscious breathing to become deep and effective. Like still water that reflects things as they are, the calming silence helps us to see things more clearly, and therefore, to be in deeper contact with ourselves and those around us.”

Stills Helping Water Silence Practice Essentials Conscious Transformation Deeper Contact Breathing Silence Is Calming Still Waters

Author:Nhat Hanh

“If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.”

“The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.”

Belief Essentials Elements Importance Transformation Overwhelming Sincerity Consuming Magnetism Electricity And Magnetism

Book:The Man and the Book Nobody Knows

Source: The Man and the Book Nobody Knows

“Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.”

Action Causes Secret Behinds Consciousness Doors Keys Essentials Transformation Asking Curiosity Tales Analysis Fairy Fairy Tale Swings Emanate Individuation Secret Doors

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals.”

World Whole Lasts Individual Source Essentials Spring Transformation Analysis World History Memories Dreams Reflections

Book:The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

“Gypsy dance is never just to be dancing. Instead it seems to be a part of an immense and significant non-verbal vocabulary of Gypsy communication and behavior. It is at the heart of an essential transformation, a transcended state, an escape from the realities of their daily lives to a more satisfying state of mind.”

Mind Heart States Reality Seems Communication Essentials Behavior Transformation Dancing Dance Significant Daily Life State Of Mind Satisfying Immense Vocabulary Gypsy

Author:Kate Magowan

“The key to genuine happiness is in our hands. To think this way is to discover the essential values of kindness, brotherly love and altruism. The more clearly we see the benefits of these values, the more we will seek to reject anything that opposes them; in this way we will be able to bring about inner transformation.”

Thinking Way Love Hands Able Happiness Values Kindness Keys Essentials Benefits Transformation Genuine Buddhist Rejects Altruism Core Values Brotherly Brotherly Love Genuine Happiness

Author:Dalai Lama

“By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.”

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.”

Giving Soul Inspiration Desire Meditation Journey Integrity Essentials Connections Transformation Intuition Access Partners Your Soul Heartfelt Meditation Practice Personal Transformation

Author:Sarah MacLean

“Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may be claimed that the theory of descent is lacking, therefore, in the most essential feature that it needs to place the theory on a scientific basis, this must be admitted.”

Knows Needs Humans May Theory Evolution Periods Essentials Bases Transformation Species Instance Features Lacking Human History Descent

Book:Evolution and adaptation

Source: Evolution and adaptation

“It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.”

Fall Realizing Emotional Essentials Transformation Psychological Bad Things Shells Falling Apart Emotional Baggage

Author:Joanna Macy

“Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.”

“Idealists are people who believe in the potential of human nature for transformation. . . . The most essential attribute of human nature is its mutability and freedom from instinct . . . it is always within our power to change our nature. So it is actually the idealists who are on the mark and the realists who are off base.”

People Believe Humans Human Nature Essentials Mark Transformation Instinct Attributes Idealism Realist Idealist Power To Change Mutability

Book:People of the Lie

Source: People of the Lie

“It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.”

Social Policy Essentials Bases Transformation Instruments Stable Consensus Democratization

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan