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Martha Graham

"I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired."

Source : Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

Martha Graham

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“Why shouldnâ€™t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of Godâ€™s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, â€œEnter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.â€ If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?”
“The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.”
“I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.”
“Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.”
“I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies!”
“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
“Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.”
“Capitalism is first and foremost a historical social system.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.13, Verso

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