Quotes About Transition

She began to laugh. You will wander, and live in many houses. "Many houses!

In the twilight of the world that we inhabit there will come to some on soft, silent wings a strange understanding: that things have not always been the way they are, and that therefore they need not always be as they have been. And Hegel says that this understanding is itself the sign that indeed the night is coming, that maybe the morning will be ours to see." Hegel

For it is in the passage-times that fall between ages—when the laws of an old world weaken and begin to fail and the laws of the new are not yet in force—that we are visited with the notion that time is malleable, that the future is up for shaping, that nothing is fixed: then we are brushed by that wing, and it is the only call we will get.

The Tale was behind them. And it was to there they journeyed. One step would take them there; they were there already

I've learned...that here you can never go back the way you came. That you never do anywhere. You only and always go on.

It's as though," Daily Alice said, "each day is like a step, and every step takes you further away from—well, from when things made more sense. When things were all alive, and made signs to you. And you can no more not take a step farther away than you could not live through a day." "I

She marched up to it anyway, reaching it with surprising suddenness, the corridor was shorter than it seemed, or seemed longer than it was, whichever; and the door at its end was even smaller than the one she'd come in by. If this keeps up, she thought, I'll be crawling next…. On the door, in fresh white paint in an antique style, the number 001 was painted. Laughing

Are you sure," she said, looking within, "that this is where I'm spose to be?" "Oh, it certainly is." "Boy. It's real little in here." "Oh, yes it is. Won't you please step right on in.

Sometimes the essay is where we end up when everything that we know must change.

The effect of the 'time becomes space' proposal is that there is no definite moment or point of creation. In more conventional quantum mechanical terms we would say that the universe is the result of a quantum mechanical tunneling process, where it must be interpreted as having tunneled from nothing at all. Quantum tunneling processes, which are familiar to physicists and routinely observed, correspond to Transitions which do not have a classical path.

We've come into this life fully equipped as a buddha, an awakened being, and we'll go out fully equipped as a buddha, realized or not.

It wasn't that people were antagonistic; it was more that they were accustomed to doing their work in a certain way, and change always causes some people to be uncomfortable.

The conception that growth and progress are just approximations to a final unchanging goal is the last infirmity of the mind in its transition from a static to a dynamic understanding of life.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's.

when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one another;

Changed loves are but changed sorts of meat, And when he hath the kernel eat, Who doth not fling away the shell?

Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life, and eternity. (Elegie III: Change)

All, all of a piece throughout:Thy chase had a beast in view;Thy wars brought nothing about;Thy lovers were all untrue.'Tis well an old age is out,And time to begin a new.

strategy 2: Let Go Graciously.

I've been a serial monogamist my whole life so I think at this point I'm just going to take a break.

You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.

I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.