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In other words, only by engaging in ritual could worshippers break free from the mortal sphere and picture themselves to be part of the immortal realm of holy truth. Because these ceremonies represented a link with the distant human past, as well as with an imagined timeless sacred prehistory, they were considered to be ways of transcending death itself: Sacred reversible circular time could replace profane irreversible linear time.
Time Journeys
Paul Halpern
That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be — it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky
The role of intuition is major in creative thinking. Intuition is that process of mental activity which attends to and recognizes the indivisible and unarrestable current that we call being or evolving.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
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