Quotes About Transition

it is a messy process for a culture to abandon its deities. Spiritual 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.

The end will arrive very abruptly. Our experience will not be that of slowly running out of gas Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it will be more like driving off a cliff.

Portals and doorways are common symbolic constructs that represent transformative rites of passage. To look for a literal portal would be like trying to locate the actual Gates of Heaven.

Dark religions must leave for sweet science to take over.

I guess, says Deagle, finally, I'll just have a pack of Marlboro Lights. That's what I used to smoke when I was human.

The two of you stood there, side by side, and the tectonic plates of your lives began to shift and resettle, continents separating.

and the thing that shocked her the most was how quickly such absences began to close. even after a few weeks, you could see how soon her parents would be forgotten, how their presence became an absence, and then...what? What did you call an absence that ceased to become an absence? what do you call a hole that has been filled in?

Anxiety!" he said. "I've been there, plenty of times! And, you know, it's particularly hard during the first one, especially, because you're so invested in that idea of self. You grew up with that concept—you think there's a real you—and you have some longstanding attachments, people you've known, and you start to think about them. People you have to leave behind—

focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.

think of death as a transformation — a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about.

As we die from one life into the next... we may also die and be reborn in a single lifetime... and the story, the journey, goes on and on...

The world as we know it is ending, my friends, no matter what happens to us

I realize now that what I was trying to do with the Armaghast data was offer the Church not a rebirth but only a transition to a false life such as these poor walking corpses inhabit. If the Church is meant to die, it must do so—but do so gloriously, in the full knowledge of its rebirth in Christ.

watch as the dense forest shifts from chrome yellow to a translucent saffron and then slowly fades through ocher to umber to gloom.

Soon she would have to wake, tend the fire, serve the men, care for the younger children, and face the end of a childhood she had barely known. Soon she would become the property of a man other than her father, and on that day she would receive the traditional Hindu blessing—May you have eight sons.

It's wonderful to preserve tradition, but a healthy organism evolves Ã¢â'¬Â¦ culturally and physically.

LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE

For some reason it's as difficult, perhaps more difficult, this time. Dying should become easier with practice.

One day things can be going along like they always were and then, suddenly, in a simple rotation of an overheated planet, everything can change.

One afternoon I opened an email from her that included a passage from the work of Pema Chodron, a Buddhist teacher and writer whom I had long admired. To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land.

It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away and here, all at the same time.

He was a husband. There is a name for what he is now. Widower. He had never fully appreciated, in all the years he took patients' medical histories, how it must feel to check that box.

Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me." —THE BAAL SHEM TOV

The power to disengage our attention from one thing and move it to another is essential for well-being.