"When our inner vision opens, our horizons expand."
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"We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen."
"Leadership is working with goals and vision management is working with objectives."
"To look at a thing is very different from seeing it."
"I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ's Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God"
"If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!"
"I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight."
"The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it."
"I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune."
"There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension, to vision and knowledge, to a happy life here and now, and to the culmination of wisdom and awakening. And what is that one thing? It is mindfulness centred on the body"
"Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!"
"My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue, an everlasting vision of the ever changing view."
"Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there."
"Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?"
"The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
"When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low."
"I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceased to be a man."
"When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life."
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."
"One must also acknowledge that there are moments in an organisation's development when fresh blood and new vision are required, which may imply that an outsider may be better suited to the leadership role."