"When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back."

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Source : Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.226, Crown Business

Betty Sue Flowers

#Thinking Quotes #Practice Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.”

Source : "Urban Meyer To Resign: Health Concerns Push Florida Football Coach To Quit", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
“The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.”

Source : "10 of Hollywood's Most Memorable Commencement Speeches" by Courtney Idasetima, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 30, 2018.
“As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.”
“The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?”
“As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.”

Source : "Kadir Nelson: In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks.net interview at California studio in San Diego County, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.
“Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.”

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