Quotes About Transition

A human figure approaching, filling itself in slowly, putting on age and sex and race, like items of clothing

The shattering [of shalom] moves us from a place of shalom to a place that is harsh and unrelenting. The shattering brings us a keen awareness that we are alone and in danger. We are on our own.

A new story begins the moment an old one ends. But a denouement is a respite that calls us to stop the journey for a brief interlude - to eat, drink, sing, dance and tell our story to others.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

It is always darkest before the dawn.

You came back because you've been running your whole life, and you finally realized you can't run anymore.

They sat in silence for a full minute, the air between them growing heavy, as if they both wanted to speak, and yet had nothing to say. They were strangers, after all, on a brief and bizarre journey that had just reached a fork in the road, each of them now needing to find seperate paths.

Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.

it is said that in death, all things become clear

uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Sometimes you need to go up...to go down.

The age of religion is drawing to a close, and the age of science is dawning.

For the youth, the changes were too slow. For the aging traditionalists, the changes were blasphemous.

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our pas

It is a messy process for a culture to abandon its dieties. Sprititual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age by those we love and trust most --- our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders. Therefore, any religious shifts occur over generations, and not without great angst, and often bloodshed. - Robert Langdon

Every spiritual metamorphosis is preceded by a physical one.

He turned now to his left

The Apocalypse is not the end of the world, but rather it is the end of the world as we know it.

Debemos estar dispuestos a renunciar a la vida que hemos planeado para poder disfrutar de la vida que nos espera. JOSEPH CAMPBELL

La hora más oscura es la que precede al alba

What followed the Black Death? We all know the answer. The Renaissance. Rebirth. It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach Paradise, man must pass through Inferno.

But uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear.

Stone dead," Ferris