William Segal Quotes

• The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.

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  William Segal

  Reality   People   World  

  William Segal (1998). “Opening: Collected Writings of William Segal, 1985-1997”, Continuum International Publishing Group

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• When one is still and listens, one begins to be in touch with a mysterious element that is within each of us, which can transform and shape us and can help to transform the world.

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  William Segal

  Elements   World   Shapes  

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• We can’t say why we search, except that there seems to be an innate need, in each human being, to know who one is, what we’re here for, how to live more poetically.

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  William Segal

  Needs   Humans   Innate  

  William Segal (2003). “A Voice at the Borders of Silence: An Intimate View of the Gurdjieff Work, Zen Buddhism, and Art”

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• One attribute of the human being is the potential to keep on growing, to keep on developing. And I think there's room in each of us. I hate to hear someone say, oh well, that man or that woman is sixty or seventy or eighty or ninety or a hundred, so he's finished. There's always something that can be transformed on the upward spiral.

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  William Segal

  Hate   Men   Thinking  

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