Quotes About Change

Changing our thoughts, Emerson asserts, can actually change our circumstances.

There is for every man a statement possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive, — a statement possible, so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it, but must either bend to it or die of it.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else, and for everything you gain you lose something else.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

I have sometimes thought that, in order to be a good minister, it was necessary to leave the ministry. The profession is antiquated. In an altered age, we worship in the dead forms of our forefathers.

For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.

Presently a new experience gives a new turn to our thoughts.

No truth so sublime but it may be trivial to-morrow in the light of new thoughts.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols it is through a transfer of the idolatry.

The accepted and betrothed lover has lost the wildest charm of his maiden in her acceptance of him. She was heaven whilst he pursued her as a star: she cannot be heaven if she stoops to such a one as he.

Going on the offense is no longer optional, for one simple reason: defense alone means a shrinking business.

No matter how successful it has made you, your past experience won't ensure success in this new world.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Faith is not a belief. Faith is what is left when your beliefs have all been blown to hell. Faith is in the heart, while beliefs are in the head. Experiences, even spiritual experiences, come and go. As long as you base your faith on experience, your faith is going to be constantly flickering, because your experiences keep changing.

A moment's reflection will show you that you play many roles in the course of a day . . . and that who you are from moment to moment changes. There is the angry you, and the kind you, the lazy you, the lustful you—hundreds of different you's. Gurdjieff points out that sometimes one "you" does something for which all the other "you's" must pay for years or possibly the rest of this life.

In the course of your journey it is most likely that your day-to-day companions or friends may change. Some may fall away as your interest in the Spirit pulls you from the worldly interest which brought or kept you together, but new friends who share your current interests will appear. Of

A relationship starting out as one that awakens love can only remain a living vehicle for love to the extent that it is continually made new or reconsecrated.

It's very hard to grow because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

Maharajji would quote Kabir: "It is easy to dye your cloth, but it is hard to dye your heart.