Quotes About Metamorphosis

This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass from one state of being to another.

He stood up and took off the dressing gown, the skullcap, the slippers. He took off the linen trousers and shirt. He took off his head like a toupee, took off his collarbones like shoulder straps, took off his rib cage like a hauberk. He took off his hips and his legs, he took off his arms like gauntlets and threw them in a corner. What was left of him gradually dissolved, hardly coloring the air.

Precautions to be taken in the case Of freak reincarnation: what to do On suddenly discovering that you Are now a young and vulnerable toad Plump in the middle of a busy road, Or a bear cub beneath a burning pine, Or a book mite in a revived divine.

What a misunderstanding" said Cincinnatus and suddenly burst out laughing. He stood up and took off the dressing gown, the skullcap, the slippers. He took off the linen trousers and shirt. He took off his head like a toupee, took off his collarbones like shoulder straps, took off his rib cage like a hauberk. He took off his hips and his legs, he took off his arms like gauntlets and threw them in a corner. What was left of him gradually dissolved, hardly coloring the air.

As soon as the pegs were driven in and the game started, the man was transfigured. From his habitual, slow, ponderous, rather rigid self, he changed into a terrifically mobile, scampering, mute, sly-visaged hunchback.

Virgin to father in zero to sixty

it is not an easy matter to change suddenly from the butterfly to the busy bee.

Small steps will have transformational results.

Tal vez, de tanto fingir que era un fantasma, estaba transformándose poco a poco en un de ellos

Softly, green gives way to gold The summer warmth gives way to cold And autumn winds begin to blow Across the changing earth.

Something wild was going on in that coffin….I was growing shoots and leaves and blossoms. Moss. Bugs. Worms. She leaned over my corpse to kiss my lips, but they were warm instead of cold, and then she realized the dead girl wasn't me at all. Who was that? Who was that dead girl squirming with life? And then she realized- That was her. Our bodies had been switched. Mine for hers.

He has done this the way the fabled butterfly does it, as its wing-flapping sets off revolution.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

Water never stops and says, 'Here I am. This is me.' It is forever in motion and twisting and turning into new forms every moment.

Magick then is the ultimate apotheosis of shape-shifting. Magick is the means to shift oneself from the state of the common everyday Homo sapiens sapiens to the transfigured state of Deum hominem or Divinum hominem, the Divine human.

Spirituality has always been about turning the world on its head.

It is time for Sufism to experience a quantum metamorphosis. It is time for a dawn of splendor on the path of Reality to occur.

The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.

En doordat ik met haar ben meegegaan, heb ik gezien hoe haar gezicht veranderde.

It happened so slowly that you might not even notice it at all, like the sky turning from dusk to dark.

In the books she read, every stream might be a river god, every tree a dryad in disguise, every old woman a powerful fairy, every pebble an enchanted soul. Anything had the potential to transform, and this, to her, seemed the true meaning of art.

Everything, she noticed, seemed capable of transmogrification. Even the two boulders in the backyard sometimes turned to silver in the early morning sunlight. In the books she read, every stream might be a river god, every tree a dryad in disguise, every old woman a powerful fairy, every pebble an enchanted soul. Anything had the potential to transform, and this, to her, seemed the true meaning of art.

Did you have to burn down the old to make way for the new?

with the idea of starting over, so nearly all of her work has to do with change or transformation in some