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Creation Quotes
"In the beginning, there was nothing. Then, out of the nothing came the Word and the Word was power. Every utterance of the Word gave form to the Void, starting with beings to utter the Word. There was no Adam, no Eve, and no need. What Man named was."
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"Was there someone absent from the table of creation?"
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"If you cannot build from nothing, then you'll have to destroy in order to create."
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"Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work - and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions of burden and blocks, is the true technology of creation through beingness."
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"The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day."
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"To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing."
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"Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness."
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"If only mankind could hold its own fertility in awe, which is one and the same whether it manifests itself in the spirit or in the flesh. For creativity in the spirit has its origins in the physical kind, is of one nature with it and only a more delicate, more rapt and less fleeting version of the carnal sort of sex."
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"We have to define future worlds by imagining them first together.Otherwise, we will deal with no man's lands and potential conflicts."
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"A perfect work of art is not the one that has no mistakes. It is the one people will like. Creation is not perfect but god is praised for having created it."
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"And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. There was no escape. The Spirit that made it was in it, shaping it and reshaping it, sometimes lying at rest, sometimes standing up and shaking itself, like a muddy horse, and letting the pieces fly."
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"The professor leaned forward. "But there's nothing more profound than creating something out of nothing. Her lovely face turned fierce. "Think about it Cath. That's what makes a god-or a mother. There's nothing more intoxicating than creating something from nothing. Creating something from yourself."
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"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."
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"Though in this genre we write about the fantastic, the stories work best when there is solid grounding in our world. Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles. Worldbuilding works best when it draws from sources in our world. Characters work best when they're grounded in solid human emotion and experience."
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"There is something deeply satisfying in shaping something with your hands. Proper artificing is like a song made solid. It is an act of creation."
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"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."
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"Worlds of my own creation are erected with walls that are within but a few scant paces of each other. The world that God creates for me has no idea what walls are."
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"Plant the seed of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention."
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"And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before."
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"You can encounter the great life within you when you recover the zero point. What you encounter that great life, all limits created by the thoughts and emotions vanish and infinite creativity springs forth."
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"The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take 'nothing' and imagine 'something' from 'nothing.' And that is God."
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"Our creations are the outward expressions of our inner truths."
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"The world has been loaned to humanity by the universal powers of creation."
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"In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified."
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"The only one who can re-create us is the One who created us in the first place. If your watch were out of order, you wouldn't take it to a blacksmith. If your car needed overhauling, you wouldn't go to a machine shop. Our spiritual problems can be solved only by the God who created us originally."
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"And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create."
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"I hold in my hand a million ideas and more. But if I am puzzled as to why they have never leapt out of my hand and been birthed into the realities they were crafted to be, it is likely because the other hand has withheld the sacrifice that is necessary to birth an idea."
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