Quotes About Becoming

When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.

Life, in short, just wants to be.

Give them a form of transportation that was becoming obsolete in the time of Clement Attlee and they will flock to

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not.

I invoked you, bribing Fate to produce you. Were you conjuring me? I had no idea How I was becoming necessary, Or what emergency surgery Fate would make Of my casual self-service.

Sin tener que inventar los puentes, o coser los diferentes pedazos del tapiz, que de golpe hubiera ciudad, hubiera tapiz, hubiera hombres y mujeres en la perspectiva absoluta de su devenir

but to be part of the treetops and the blueness, invisible the iridescent darknesses beyond, silent, listening to the air becoming no air becoming air again

In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.

To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.

As Carl Jung said, "I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become." Even

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

The willingness to keep growing: Unfaithfulness is a refusal to become, a rejection of grace (grace that is inactive is an illusion), and the refusal to be oneself.

Becoming the beloved is pulling the truth revealed to me from above down into the ordinariness of what I am, in fact, thinking of, talking about and doing from hour to hour.

If it is true that we not only are the Beloved, but also have to become the Beloved; if it is true that we not only are children of God, but also have to become children of God; if it is true that we not only are brothers and sisters, but also have to become brothers and sisters . . . if all that is true, how then can we get a grip on this process of becoming? If the spiritual life is not simply a way of being, but also a way of becoming, what then is the nature of this becoming?

Becoming like the heavenly Father is not just one important aspect of Jesus' teaching, it is the very heart of his message.

Becoming a child is living the Beatitudes and so finding the narrow gate into the Kingdom.

Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him, our perfect example. Our way of life, hour by hour, must be filled with the love of God and love for others.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or something to be.

We ought to remind ourselves daily, repeat it like a litany, that in our being lies concealed the whole gamut of existence... Above all, we should cease postponing the act of becoming what in fact and essence we are.

What we do belongs to what we are, and what we are is what becomes of us.

When, at last, I ceased to be myself, I came to be.

All that I am. All that I will be is defined by this moment.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.