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"Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry."
"Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement."
"Returning is the movement of the Way."
"It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opaque depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it."
"There will be no prison which can hold our movement down."
"It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love."
"The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground."
"The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened."
"Radical thought has inspired many of the great political and social reform movements in American history, from ending slavery to establishing the minimum wage."
"CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity."
"Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement."
"It is in the movements of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately."
"I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement, but we do not have to say that we are anticommunists just to fawn on foreign powers."
"The development of the mind comes through movement"
"The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something."
"My dancing is not an attempt to interpret life in the literary sense. It is an affirmation of life through movement."
"When there's somebody there who is transparent enough so that the stillness comes through unhindered, there's a reciprocal movement in you because the presence of stillness suddenly recognizes itself."
"All economic movements, by their very nature, are motivated by crowd psychology."
"The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement."
"Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements."
