"Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit."
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"Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is."
"That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds."
"The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact."
"The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment."
"There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see."
"In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical."
"Your time on this earth is limited, don’t live someone else's life, live by your vision."
"Man is a being in search of meaning."
"Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest."
"Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth."
"You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living."
"Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to unfulfilled dreams in mankind."
"There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms."
"Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true."
"You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision."
"We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality."
"Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God."
"Vision without execution is delusion."
"Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be"