Quotes About Transition

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

For every thing you have missed, you have gained something else; and for every thing you gain, you lose something.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

No matter how successful it has made you, your past experience won't ensure success in this new world.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

In our relationships, how much can we allow them to become new, and how much do we cling to what they used to be yesterday?

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

In the course of your journey it is most likely that your day-to-day companions or friends may change. Some may fall away as your interest in the Spirit pulls you from the worldly interest which brought or kept you together, but new friends who share your current interests will appear. Of

The freaky thing about death is the anticipatory fear of it.

What often happens when we face this stripping away of our models is that we will give up this and that, and instead grab onto that and this. It's too uncomfortable not to have anything to cling to, and so we substitute a new set of attachments for the old ones.

The caterpillar does not become a flying caterpillar; it morphs into a butterfly.

What is now in the past was once in the future

a mere five years after the last maharaja had signed away his land, Indians had 'come to take integrated India so much for granted that it requires amental effort today even to imagine that it could be different'.

God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.

Tragedia maturiz?rii nu const? în faptul c? ne pierdem copil?ria în simplitatea ei, ci în aceea c? ne pierdem inocenÈ›a în sublimul ei.

the transitory feeling of being constantly uprooted was always present.

Dios entrenó a Moisés en un palacio para luego usarlo en el desierto. Entrenó a José en el desierto para luego usarlo en un palacio.

Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. It's like boats. You keep your motor on so you can steer with the current. And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That's a triumph.

No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.

Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason.

Some boys walk by and you cry, seeing them. They feel good, they look good, they are good. Oh, they're not above peeing off a bridge, or stealing an occasional dime-store pencil sharpener; it's not that. It's just, you know, seeing them pass, that's how they'll be all their life; they'll get hit, hurt, cut, bruised, and always wonder why, why does it happen? how can it happen to them?