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“When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.”

Two Soul Eye Beautiful Form Beauty Vision Sight Casts Contemplating Mould Beautiful Soul

Book:The Dialogues of Plato

Source: The Dialogues of Plato

“Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.”

Enough Form Space Vision Unconscious Spontaneity Coordination

Author:Herbert Read

“My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.”

Art Form Growth Memories Vision Path Shapes Art Is Breathe Exploration Contracts Recollection New Paths New Vision Armenia

Author:Arshile Gorky

“We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.”

Light Past Form Fall Vision Shadow Experience Vary

Book:Short Studies on Great Subjects

Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects

“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.”

Ifs World Way Writing Trying Art Facts Stories Earth Form Artist Order Force Natural Behinds Vision Novel Creation Objects Planets Chaos Driven Impulse Appropriate Screenplays Planet Earth

Author:Robert Olen Butler

“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

“We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.”

People Want Hard Form Community Vision Grace Hard Work Clubs Surround Clique Shared Vision

Author:Philip Yancey

“The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.”

God Form Vision Divine Circumstances

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.”

Trying Form Night Three Vision Saws Hungry Sat Pie Day And Night Beef Rims Rio

Book:The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

Source: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

“This is a human form in which every Divine entity, every Divine principle, that is to say, all the names and forms ascribed by man to God, are manifest... You are very fortunate that you have the chance to experiences the bliss of the vision of the form, which is the form of all gods, now, in this life itself.”

Men Humans Form Names Chance Vision Principles Divine This Life Fortunate Bliss Manifest Entity Human Form

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet.... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.”

Thinking Eye Form Memories Half Vision Path Shapes Disappear Sensations

Book:The Monkey Grammarian

Source: The Monkey Grammarian

“Marcel Duchamp, one of this century's pioneers, moved his work through the retinal boundaries which had been established with Impressionism into a field where language, thought and vision act upon one another. There it changed form through a complex interplay of new mental and physical materials, heralding many of the technical, mental and visual details to be found in more recent art... He declared that he wanted to kill art ("for myself") but his persistent attempts to destroy frames of reference altered our thinking, established new units of thought, a "new thought for that object."”

“All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.”

Art Reality Form Vision Photography Illusion Art Is Revelations

Author:Ansel Adams

“Taste, if it mean anything but a paltry connoisseurship, must mean a general susceptibility to truth and nobleness, a sense to discern, and a heart to love and reverence all beauty, order, goodness, wheresoever, or in whatsoever forms and accompaniments they are to be seen. This surely implies, as its chief condition, not any given external rank or situation, but a finely-gifted mind, purified into harmony with itself, into keenness and justness of vision; above all, kindled into love and generous admiration.”

Source: Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ

“It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon.”

World Real Form Imagination Vision Divine Shapes Solitude Brilliant Glorious Real World Attributes Gloom Dungeons Irrepressible

Book:The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

Source: The Complete Short Stories of Washington Irving: The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, The Alhambra, Woolfert’s Roost & The Crayon Papers Collections (Illustrated): The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, Old Christmas, The Voyage, Roscoe, The Widow’s Retinue, An Old Soldier, Mountjoy, Don Juan, Woolfert’s Roost, Tales of The Alhambra and many more

“When a vision begins to form everything changes, including the air around me. I seem no longer to be in the same atmosphere. I feel a peacefulness and a love that are indescribable. I stand alone, and nothing worldly can touch me. I feel that I am looking down from a higher plane and wondering why others cannot see what I am seeing.”

Feels Seems Form Wonder Vision Seeing Air Higher Including Planes Atmosphere Worldly Things Change Stand Alone Touch Me Peacefulness Looking Down Indescribable I Stand Alone

Author:Jeane Dixon

“We are perhaps too near the age of transition to see clearly the interplay of all that made for progress. Each of us has had his own peculiar training, his own personal contact with the mighty ones of the immediate past; and this forms as it were a telescopic tube determining limits to our field of vision. No doubt we may range the whole horizon; but after all we look from our own point of vantage.”

Looks May Made Whole Age Past Form Vision Doubt Progress Fields Limits Training Contact Range No Doubt Horizon Transition Peculiar Tubes

Author:Cargill Gilston Knott

“Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.”

“We've been following many forms of democratized ownership, starting with co-ops, land banks at the neighborhood level, municipal ownership and state ownership of banks - there's a whole series of these that attempt to fill the small-scale infrastructure that can build up to a larger theoretical vision.”

States Whole Form Levels Vision Land Series Starting Following Scales Neighborhood Ownership Infrastructure Theoretical

Author:Gar Alperovitz

“John Michell's The Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style, John has made widely available the visions, the laws, and the numbers held within pure geometry and which integrate earth and sky, movement and form, cosmos and mankind.”

“After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats.”

World Littles Ideas States Form Night Leadership Vision Cases Stage Fronts Speech Intellectual Unions Conviction Seats Addresses Imitation Flattery Theft Adages Delivery Larceny

Author:Ronald Reagan

“You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin.”

Inspirational Form Goal Vision One Thing Thick Thick And Thin Through Thick And Thin

Book:Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

“The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe.”

Mind May States Form Lying Universe Vision Objects One Day Absolutes Sacred Perceive Emptiness Uniqueness Bondage True Nature Elevating

Author:Philip Kapleau

“Change masters are - literally - the right people in the right place at the right time. The right people are the ones with the ideas that move beyond the organization's established practice, ideas they can form into visions. The right places are the integrative environments that support innovation, encourage the building of coalitions and teams to support and implement visions. The right times are those moments in the flow of organizational history when it is possible to reconstruct reality on the basis on accumulated innovations to shape a more productive and successful future.”

Source: Change Masters

“It would be very curious to record by means of photographs, not the stage of the picture, but its metamorphoses. Perhaps one would perceive the path taken by the mind in order to put its dreams into a concrete form. But what is really very curious is to observe that fundamentally the picture does not change, that despite appearances the initial vision remains almost intact.”

Mind Mean Doe Dream Would Be Form Order Vision Path Taken Records Stage Remains Photograph Appearance Despite Curious Perceive Concrete Initials Metamorphosis

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Islam has values, following the Koran and the example of Mohammed and they form people very profoundly and for some Muslims it creates a vision of a very different society and a hope it will be established.”

People Different Form Values Vision Example Islam Following

Author:Mark Durie

“To us, to the everyday teachers of everyday students, neither of whom is writing the book of the universe but who both have their fullest life only when they align themselves with its truths, working out our own commitment to and our own vision of agape, in however homely or personal a form, is a life long task that both guides us in our teaching endeavors and honors those endeavors at the same time.”

Writing Long Book Form Universe Vision Teacher Teaching Students Honor Commitment Tasks Everyday Work Out Guides Endeavor Long Life Homely Agape

Author:Marshall Gregory

“That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.”

Seems Form Purpose Vision Importance Artistic Limitation Characteristics Concentration Intensity Temperament Artistic Temperament

Book:The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

“My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.”

Country Running Form Values Father Party Vision Ideals Ghost This Is Me Liberal Party

Author:Justin Trudeau

“[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.”

Form Artist Goal Vision Greater Complexes Clarity Intensity

Author:Roger Ballen

“At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.”

Kind May Stills Form Song Language Animal Brain Vision Higher Activity Capacity Organization Primitive Psychics Triggers Dose Catalyst Emergence Enzymes Psilocybin

Author:Terence McKenna

“We have to have the Vision. And we have to form the Intention. And we have to adopt the Means. Vision. Intention. Means. And if we do that, then it works! Every individual, every church, every organization... that's all we need to do.”

Ifs Needs Mean Form Individual Church Vision Organization Intention

Author:Dallas Willard