Quotes About Transition

In the camp at Les Mille I observed again in myself and in others how very quickly the human being becomes acclimated.

But then I grew up, experienced some life, and I understood that when you merely switch from being a prisoner to being a guard, no one is freed, not even yourself.

It's not the flying that's the hard part; it's the landing.

Funny how you can fear change, even when already surrounded by the worst of the worst.

Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.

Remember, children. For every exit, there is also an entrance. ~ Milligan, The Mysterious Benedict Society

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

For perfect hope is achieved on the brink of despair, when instead of falling over the edge, we find ourselves walking on air.

The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of training and experience.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

A man after death, is not a natural but a spiritual man; nevertheless he still appears in all respects like himself.

Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

Birth is not the beginning, Death is not the end.

Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.