Quotes About Transition

La impermanencia es la bondad de la realidad. Todo evoluciona constantemente, como las cuatro estaciones que están en continuo flujo: del invierno pasamos a la primavera, al verano y después al otoño; como el día que se convierte en noche: la luz que se convierte en oscuridad y pasa a ser nuevamente luz. La impermanencia es la esencia de todo:

We can get used to the fleeting quality of life in a natural, gentle, even joyful way, by watching the seasons change, watching day turning to night, watching children grow up, watching sand castles dissolve back into the sea. But if we don't find some way to make friends with groundlessness and the ever-changing energy of life, then we'll always be struggling to find stability in a shifting world.

From this point of view, the only time we ever know what's really going on is when the rug's been pulled out and we can't find anywhere to land. We use these situations either to wake ourselves up or to put ourselves to sleep.

push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

Rudolph Bahro. He writes, "When an old culture is dying, the new culture is created by those people who are not afraid to be insecure.

Give me your past, all your pain, all your anger, all your guilt. Release it to me, and I will be a safe harbor for the life you need to leave behind.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

The art of moving forward lies in understanding what to leave behind.

I got a PBS mind in an MTV world.

Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.

Now my tapestry's unraveling.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.

Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets!

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.

Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

Changing the subject is one of the most difficult arts to master, the key to almost all the others.

When I went to college, I wasn't interested in fashion anymore - I was interested in art.

Growing old is partly an inescapable process of accommodation and adjustment.

The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed