Top 33 Deena Metzger Quotes
#2. Write against patterns. Go against the devils. Write what you never write. Lie. Validate what you don't validate. Indulge what you don't like. Wallow in it. Write the opposite of what you always write, think, speak. Do everything against the grain!
Deena Metzger
#3. Some people seem to graze like sheep in the placid pastures of their faith. Some of them were born there and never broke away ... Others, after some wandering, found shelter there and are quiet and content. They look with a bland mystification at the mavericks.
Marjorie Holmes
#5. To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin to form a self. To avoid this territory is to avoid the encounters that might validate, inform, or enhance one's experience.
Deena Metzger
#6. When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth.
Deena Metzger
#7. I was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
#8. Beauty appears when something is completely and absolutely and openly itself.
Deena Metzger
#9. Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.
Deena Metzger
#10. STRIVE with all diligence to keep out that monster unbelief. It so dishonours Christ, that He will withdraw His visible presence if we insult Him by indulging it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#11. The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
C.S. Forester
#12. I'll tell you how to get up in the morning ... watch for the dawn.
Deena Metzger
#13. Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.
Deena Metzger
#14. The world of public discourse - political, social, diplomatic, commercial - has so corrupted language that we are rightly more suspicious of the meaning of words than we are convinced of their veracity. Language has been turned on its head.
Deena Metzger
#15. Ax." Sadie is breathless as she caresses the angular lines of my face. "I love you so much. You're my whole world. You know that, right?
Siobhan Davis
#16. For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.
Deena Metzger
#17. To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.
Deena Metzger
#18. Without compassion, we will never know anyone or anything, not even our own story. Too much judgment, too many ideas and attitudes will stand in the way of the fundamental principle that we are similar to, connected with, and part of everything else.
Deena Metzger
#19. When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.
Michael Faraday
#20. Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
Boyd K. Packer
#21. One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.
Joe Davis
#22. There are mythic patterns under all of our lives. Each one of us, often unbeknownst to ourselves, is engaged in a drama of soul that is not reserved only for gods, heroes, and saints. Story is one bridge between the human realm and the divine.
Deena Metzger
#23. Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl Jung
#24. Creating art and creating ourselves are the same act; art, world, ourselves - these are continuous with one another.
Deena Metzger
#25. For those who are intrigued by the multiplicity of reality and the unique possibilities of their own vision, the creative is the path they must pursue.
Deena Metzger
#27. This is our grace: To be a note
In the exact chord that animates creation.
Deena Metzger
#28. He was free and unencumbered. Which is to say alone and unemployed.
Tim Winton
#29. The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.
Lennox Lewis
#30. A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.
Deena Metzger
#31. The gods come to us in the forms we recognize.
Deena Metzger
#32. When you are able to fill your mind with tranquility and inner peace, this world becomes very peaceful.
Debasish Mridha
#33. With more than 1,300 sites of care, VA operates the largest integrated health care system in the county.
Bob Filner
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