Christine Downing quotes

“We need images and myths through which we can see who we are and what we might become.”
-- Christine Downing

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“There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise.”
-- Christine Downing

Source : Christine Downing (1988). “Psyche's Sisters: Re-Imagining the Meaning of Sisterhood”, Burns & Oates

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“Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow...”
-- Christine Downing

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“As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.”
-- Christine Downing

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“Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.”

“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”

“Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.”

Source : Twitter post from May 08, 2013

“His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.”

“Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?”

“Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.”

“I understood that I might fail, but I wouldn't let it happen because I changed my compass along the way.”

“We realize--often quite suddenly--that our sense of self, which has been formed and constructed out of our ideas, beliefs and images, is not really who we are. It doesn't define us, it has no center.”

“the truth of who we are is innate goodness, and the whole journey is really about removing any obstacle or false belief that keeps us from knowing that”

“At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown to be who we are around them, as around a stake.”

Source : Anna Funder (2012). “All That I Am: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins