Quotes About Metamorphosis

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

Some people change their ways when they see the light, others when they feel the heat.

Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.

And what's a butterfly? At best, He's but a caterpillar, drest.

What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly.

Help me to see new ways of being as I release old ways of seeing.

Before you can live a part of you has to die.

Tore up from the floor up. Followed by a big outtie. John Mathew

But the ignition did, in fact, occur. And it changed everything.

was enough to actually turn you into what you had to be.

A little weariness'll change a lot of things.

I chanced the chest and the slow-beating heart. The quick compulsion of my will was rewarded. I no longer had chest nor heart. I was only a mind, a soul, a consciousness—call it what you will—incorporate in a nebulous brain that, while it still centered inside my skull, was expanded, and was continuing to expand, beyond my skull.

I have no clue if it's true and I don't much want to look, but I bet a war happens inside the cocoon.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

Observe how endings become beginnings.

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

Death is the Graduation of the Soul

And I must borrow every changing shapeTo find expression.

You, His fruit, having descended into the depths like Christ after being crushed, experienced the Inner Court fermentation. Now, however, that grape no longer exists. Something else has taken its place. The grape is now wine, having risen with new life in a new form like Christ. As a result, the veil that has always stood between the Vintner and the grapes no longer exists between the King and His wine.

Even if the water becomes hot water, it will quench the fire.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

When something happens that eclipses the imaginable, it changes a person. It's like the difference between a raw egg and a scrambled egg. It's the same thing, but it's not the same at all.

But in truth, I was different now, burning and anointed.