Becoming One Quotes (page 8)

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• sea
• pollution
• receiving

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. Friedrich Nietzsche

• age
• becoming
• become

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic. Robert Musil

• animal
• one day
• humanity

One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them. Martin Luther King jr.

• strong
• light
• powerful

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim. Frank Herbert

• knowledge
• new
• appearance

One job of the unconscious is to act as a workshop for rough-shaping ideas; crafting notions as new parts or tools become available; storing observations until something relevant appears in the landscape -- generally soaking, simmering, and incubating ideas. Gradually, while combing through its inventory, it finds bits and pieces that create a pattern. When it slips knowledge of that pattern to the conscious mind, it's a surprise, like a telegram slid under the door. Diane Ackerman

• dark
• light
• imagination

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung

• political
• innocent
• she

One reason Elvis mattered, she said, was that in his prime, pop music had still been politically innocent, therefore deeply life-affirming, therefore relevant. By the time he died, most pop songs had become, usually without the conscious intention of those who wrote and sang them, anthems endorsing the values of fascism, which remains the case to this day. Dean Koontz

• gradualism
• become
• poisoning

One becomes gradually accustomed to poison. Victor Hugo

• humble
• than
• winner

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within. Dave Pelzer

• author
• beautiful
• watch

One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash. Norman Maclean

• girlfriend
• annoying
• getting married

ONE OF MY girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern. Chelsea Handler

• philosophical
• conscience
• preserved

One begins to go about with the sluggish step of a philosopher or a clochard, as more and more vital gestures become reduced to mere instincts of preservation, to a conscience more alert not to be deceived than to grasp truth. Julio Cortazar

• earth
• shadow
• passed away

One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you. Henry Miller

• responsibility
• evening
• responsibly

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible. Thylias Moss

• vampire
• evening
• mindfulness

Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo. Stephenie Meyer