{"quotes":[{"text":"Originality has nothing to do with producing something ’ new’ - it is about seeking the source, the primordial ground from which you draw and have always drawn your being. It comes about when one works from one’s origins, it is the dance of the eternal return… and is as ancient as the Dreamtime.","author":"Billy Marshall Stoneking","tags":["creativity","dreamtime","originality","origins","stoneking","writing"],"id":6564,"author_id":"Billy+Marshall+Stoneking"},{"text":"We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.","author":"Chögyam Trungpa","tags":["acceptance","background","confidence","cultivation","development","enlightenment","heritage","humanity","humans","life","mankind","original-sin","origins","pride","progress","sentient-beings","shame","truth"],"id":14770,"author_id":"Ch%C3%B6gyam+Trungpa"},{"text":"My guess is that the Jonathan would be as out of place in England or Kazakhstan, the native ground of its ancestors, as I would be in Russia, the native ground of my own. The arrow of natural history won’t be reversed: by now the Jonathan’s as much an American as I am.","author":"Michael Pollan","tags":["ancestry","food","origins"],"id":41764,"author_id":"Michael+Pollan"},{"text":"The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light.","author":"Pablo Neruda","tags":["blood","born","creativity","inheritance","origins","perspective","word","writing"],"id":51716,"author_id":"Pablo+Neruda"},{"text":"Good science fiction has its roots in good science.","author":"Dan Brown","tags":["books","origins","roots","science","science-fiction","scifi","writing"],"id":66460,"author_id":"Dan+Brown"},{"text":"Deep within, there is something profoundly known, not consciously, but subconsciously. A quiet truth, that is not a version of something, but an original knowing. What this, absolute, truth [identity] is may be none of our business…but it is there, guiding us along the path of greater becoming; a true awareness. It is so self-sustaining that our recognition of it is not required. We are offspring’s of such a powerfully divine force – Creator of all things known and unknown.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["conscious","creator","guidance","identity","inner-self","knowledge","origins","profound","quotes","recognition","self-awareness","subconscious","truth"],"id":102910,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"What this means is not a single Tower of Babel plotted in common, but hundreds of thousands of separate beginnings, the length and breadth of America. Energetic people who build against pains and uncertainties, as weaker ones merely hope against them.","author":"Saul Bellow","tags":["action-over-thought","america","origins"],"id":153411,"author_id":"Saul+Bellow"},{"text":"Man's first expression, like his first dream, was an aesthetic one. Speech was a poetic outcry rather than a demand for communication. Original man, shouting his consonants, did so in yells of awe and anger at his tragic state, at his own self-awareness and at his own helplessness before the void.","author":"Barnett Newman","tags":["aesthetic","communication","existentialism","expression","origins","the-void","void"],"id":207873,"author_id":"Barnett+Newman"},{"text":"A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honour, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honour at all costs.","author":"Corneliu Zelea Codreanu","tags":["concepts","culture","eternal","honour","origins","values"],"id":209977,"author_id":"Corneliu+Zelea+Codreanu"},{"text":"All Authors come from the unified countrynent known as Australia. Authors live in the future where love is external.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["australia","hip","books","continent","continents","external","geography","knowledge","life","love","nothing","origin","originality","originating","origins","unification","unified","unity","wisdom","writing"],"id":228758,"author_id":"Will+Advise"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}