Quotes About Transition

Kotter and Cohen observed that, in almost all successful change efforts, the sequence of change is not ANALYZE-THINK-CHANGE, but rather SEE-FEEL-CHANGE. You

When change happens, it tends to follow a pattern. We've got to stop ignoring that pattern and start embracing it.

ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.

Until you can ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you're not ready to lead a switch.

You could also call it waking,' Krishna continues. 'Or intermission, as one scene in a play ends and the next hasn't yet begun.

the bird began to carry them to a new life in a new land. We'll be happy ever after, the queen wanted to whisper to her daughter as they flew, but she knew that was not true. Life never is that way. And so instead she held her daughter in silence, heart to heart, and as they traveled each heart drew on the other's strength, so that when they reached their destination they would be ready.

Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead.

When one has to leave behind almost everything, it hardly matters what one takes.

Perhaps we are always alone, from the time we leave the safety of our mothers' wombs until the time Waheguru gathers us to Himself.

Just as we cast off worn clothes and wear new ones, when the time arrives, the soul casts off the body and finds a new one to work out its karma. Therefore the wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead. I

The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.

All things in this world change and pass away— some after many years, some overnight.

Even the most startling adventure, sooner or later, must become routine.

Each time I went to a new brother, I'd be a virgin again.

Sometimes—she knows this from her own life—to get to the other side, you must travel through grief. No detours are possible.

At an earlier time, she would have read into these gestures what she longed for; now she is grateful and resigned.

And that is how, poised in the sky between our new life and our old one, the life we cannot yet imagine and the one we've already begun to forget, I tell her a tale to make her heart strong, to graft her life onto. For of all things in this world it seems to me that that is what women most need.

I hid my face in my husband's chest, and the tears that I'd held onto for so long burst from me like a storm. Ram's arms came around me, and I felt, on my forehead, his own tears. Thus we crossed from city to forest, from the known world to the unknown.

Let the past go. Be at ease. Allow the future to arrive at its own pace, unfurling its secrets when it will.

How, without detaching ourselves from the spell of the past, can we focus fully on the moment that faces us?

There is a transition period of about 24 hours for the soul to transfer from the physical to the inner world. The first three to five hours are the most critical period. The brain may be physically considered dead, but the higher energy centers or chakras are still alive. It is through the higher energy centers that the incarnated soul sees the light and unites with the brilliant white light.

Seeing darkness during meditation is also good. It is an advanced state of consciousness. Just ask for divine blessings so that you will progress further. Before the light is darkness. As you explore deeper, there is actually "a series of darkness and light." The dark void is a transition state before the person experiences the explosion of light.