Quotes About Change

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

One who changes a body from the error of the way not only brings peace and harmony but saves a soul and covers a multitude of shortcomings.

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

I'm constantly jumping off cliffs and developing my wings on the way down. ... It's a gamble, a ... spiritual gamble. You are who you choose to be.

One of our fundamental spiritual problems is this: we want God to do something new while we keep doing the same old thing.

Change is growth. For me it has been a very spiritual and musical rebirth.

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

People suffer from pain and call it evil, yet in reality it may be growing pains of the Spirit-the changing of the body into a finer and more spiritual substance.

The change we are looking for is always a change within ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to show me how.

Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.

The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again; For I am like the Moon, you will see me with new face everyday.

The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.

The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

Things are always different from what they might be.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

Conclusion means death. Confusion means possibility.

As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.