Quotes About Transition

A horizon is something towards which we move, but it's also something that moves along with us - Hans Georg Gadamer (Truth and Method)

At this time in my life, what am I leaving? Where am I about to enter?

At the gates of time, blessing waits to usher toward us the grace we need.

There is a period between each night and day when one dies for a few hours, neither dreaming nor thinking nor tossing nor hating nor loving, but dying for a little while because life progresses in just such a way.

took over the ranch, the cowboys had quit feeding silage, so I didn't know much

One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.

Flowers wouldn't be buttering their toast after the next election, but Pweters might be.

One of the girls said, "I think you should go now." Virgil stood

either lived in, or recently had lived

out of the truck: he

for a few moments, and he went inside. Halfway down the hall and around a corner, he

I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground. I entered a new life and found her again, in a woman who was entirely her own person. When this life is done, I'll turn away from it without regret as well, because I know she waits for me, in another, different life.

I've been told my liminal space is like the dark of the grave. But I think of it as the dark from the other end of life entirely. The dark of everything ahead, not everything behind.

Cardenia gawked at Rachela I. "You're unbelievable." "I worked in marketing," Rachela I said. "Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn't call it that after that point.

It's a hell of a thing to say good-bye to your whole life.

I worked in marketing," Rachela I said. "Before I was a prophet. After, too, but we didn't call it that after that point.

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too," I said. "And you wait around for your body to catch up." "Is that what you're doing now?" Jane said. "Waiting for your body to catch up, I mean." "No, not anymore," I said. "You eventually get to live again. You just live a different life, is all.

But imagine you're a tapeworm, and then suddenly you're Goethe. It's like that.

There was a reason why Special Forces soldiers hardly ever retired - being retired means losing integration. Losing integration means being alone.

How quickly the creepy becomes commonplace.

the most important days of your existence don't always announce themselves in obvious ways.

What I fear is diminishment, and subtle change, and the moment in which a life without you becomes a sustainable thought.

It's a hell of a thing to say good-bye to your whole life. I signed.

comes immediately after.