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Julia Hill Environmental Activist
Transformation

"As one of us transforms we activate transformational energies in others, which enables them to more readily reconnect with the wisdom of their innate creative source."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
Transformation

"There are many things that are still uncertain and that probably nobody knows, because so many factors determine what form the transformation of consciousness on our planet takes."

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Desmond Tutu Theologian, Activist
Transformation

"Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it."

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
Transformation

"The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
Transformation

"Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem."

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Shirley Geok-lin Lim Poet, Novelist
Transformation

"The inimitable writer Maxine Hong Kingston published a book in 2002 with the title To Be the Poet. However, in contrast to the transformatory distinctions Kingston makes between the conditions of being a prose writer and "the poet," my multigenre impulses incline me to a broader transformation: to be a writer."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Transformation

"Once you have established Your inner contact With your inner Pilot, Your life's transformation-victory Will not remain a far cry."

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