The Art of Becoming Quotes

“When the ancients beheld the night sky, they didn't see another place, they saw another state of being.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“Beginnings are fragile things. They're made of gossamer threads of hope and shimmer with the faint light of potential grace. It's in the human heart that we begin weaving our designs and dreams of experience yet to come. We live our entire lives within chrysalises. As soon as we emerge from one, life sculpts another around us. Within manifest reality, everything is in a constant state of becoming, even God.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“Beauty is the beginning and end of fulfillment. She stands at the precipice and invites us to step forward. If we allow her, she walks beside us in nobility as we journey, removing the glamour from our eyes and tenderly embracing us when the road feels rocky.
Eventually, we realise that Beauty resides within us. She is the divine, human heart.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“A visionary is not some dude who creates the latest gadget or a start-up. A Visionary is someone who actually has vision.

A Creative Visionary envisions and only gives feeling energy to that which they intend. This focused energy moves them into conscious action.

A Creative Visionary is not an idealist with their head in the sand. They see the reality of pain, suffering, and confusion in the world and are moved by ceaseless compassion for their fellow man to imagine and act in order to create a better world. They cross the abyss and return transformed. Their compassion harmonises with wisdom and a disciplined mind. Embodiment is a Creative Visionary's highest aim. A vision only comes to fruition through the people who have the will to embody it.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“The land we grow up on patterns us, we become a part of the energetic mosaic of the living experience that draws its life from the land and draws its breath from the trees.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“Pain never stops sounding the alarm; she never falls asleep on the job. At the moment we shut down our hearts, or begin entertaining harmful beliefs as ultimate truth, or interpret our experiences in a way that hinders our evolution, Pain starts poking us…just a little at first but if we ignore her, she'll start clanging cymbals in our ears until we acknowledge her presence.

Pain is a message, a signal, an alert. Pain is Truth's formless, eternal Sentinel. Pain is indeed the Great Teacher, and she works in concert with Truth to purify consciousness and allow transmutation.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“The future is a vast expanse that you’ll never reach and the past is a place you’ve never been but both have a way of reaching across the Great Wheel and tapping you on the shoulder.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“The future is a vast expanse that you’ll never reach and the past is a place you’ve never been but both have a way of reaching across the Great Wheel and slapping you in the face.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“There is only one, Absolute Self. The Relative self enquires, "Who, am I?" and the inner, Being replies with a smile, "Who, am I not?"

What makes this realisation so joyful is the comprehension that the Absolute Self is expressed through the prism of an actualised individual's unique perspective and lived experience. It's a joyful, glorious playground of light and colour, a kaleidoscope of Being.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“You are not on a path. You are the path. You are the path that Divinity takes to awaken as itself.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“Heaven isn't a place we go, it's something we become.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“Don't ever let anyone tell you that imagination is mere fantasy; it's nothing less than the foundation of reality. Imagination is a realm, not an activity. Envisioning is the activity and faculty unique to human beings that allows us to enter realities that have not yet manifested and imbue them with life.

It's through the act of envisioning and the willingness to enter the imaginative realm that we can inhabit the life of another and empathise. It's in imagination that all experience can be shared, matter rearranged, circumstances altered, minds changed, and hearts transformed.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“Social media exploits and triggers the same psychological mechanisms that religions do—the more followers a person has, the more truth/knowledge we assume they possess. But the irony is that "truest" and most knowledgable of human beings have been, and remain, virtually unknown by the masses. Reality is a big "place", those who take the rarely trodden path, meet rare souls.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“All forms of becoming require spaciousness in one way or another; mental space that allows the mind to expand, emotional space for feeling to flower, and physical space in which to move.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“While no one is ever really gone (they live in us, as us), engagement with the tangible is just as sacred and real as our engagement with the spiritual. The people who embrace us, and the physical world that we can touch, see, smell, and taste are not strictly illusions. They are aspects of the Absolute, made manifest. The world and the people in it are the surface of that thing we call God, and loss is a stripping away of that surface. When the stripping away occurs, a presence arrives. That presence is an invitation to embrace our pain, and through that embrace, allow the intangible to embrace us.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World

“Writing a book is like having a child; once you launch it into the world, it has a life of its own.”
― Dana Hutton, The Art of Becoming: Creating Abiding Fulfillment in an Unfulfilled World