Quotes About Transformation

Segretamente o no, è necessario divenire tutt'altro oppure cessare di essere.

Animals. Let them burn, then. Let the streets be filled with the smell of their sacrifice. Let this place be called racca, ichabod, wormwood. Flex And power transformers atop lightpoles bloomed into nacreous purple light, spitting catherine-wheel sparks. High-tension wires fell into the streets in pick-up-sticks tangles...

It was possible to graduate from passive to active, to take the thing that had once driven you nearly to madness as a neutral prize of no more than occasional academic interest.

A veces, las víctimas de una larga enfermedad se convierten en seres ariscos y tiránicos. La imagen del enfermo sufrido y santo es falsa.

Soy tres mujeres. Soy la que era; soy la que no tenía derecho a ser pero era; soy la mujer a la que has salvado.Te doy las gracias, pistolero.

Time passes and everything gets bigger except us.

Healing is a kind of revolt...all successful revolts begin in secret.

Did you know that you could sit in front of a screen or a pad of paper and change the world? It doesn't last, the world always comes back, but before it does, it's awesome. It's everything.

Our lesson for today, boys and girls, is the more things change, the more things change. Whoever said the more things change the more things stay the same was obviously suffering severe mental retardation.

in a revolution, only revolutionaries can find their way.

The talk around the congress was that "Moses had taken the Jews out of Egypt, and Stalin took them out of the Central Committee."305

The body takes about seven years to replace all its cells. As we age original factory parts get harder to come by. We accept seconds and rebuilds. Some are even transplanted with recycled parts. We get less miles to the gallon, and eventually, after several towings, we must abandon the body by the side of the road. From there we must go the rest of the way alone with just our heart for guidance.

The mind is in a constant state of flux. No thought, no feeling, no sensation lasts for more than an instant before it is transformed into the next state, next thought, the next sensation. Note those moments... As they pass through, note such states as confidence, bewilderment, effort, trust, distrust, pleasure, discomfort, boredom, devotion, inquiry, pride, anger, desire, etc.

As Nisargadatta said, 'The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it." Often

our birth before we die, becoming truly whole rather than just appearing to "have it together"—is more difficult.

To become Kuan Yin is to recognize the extreme toil and commitment that brings fruition. Her accomplishment not bestowed on her by some celestial prize committee, Zeus, or the Holy Ghost, but by the hard-earned forgoing of all earthly pleasure, to complete what Buddha called "the work to be done.

Some people say you can't change behavior. But there is clear evidence to indicate that people can and do change behavior—sometimes dramatically—and that doing so often produces extraordinary results.

H]e who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.

Facing the reality of that painful season when it felt as though you were in a sandstorm with no skin is the key to becoming whole now.

It is not enough that the mess is cleaned up, like a house being prepared for company. We can only be satisfied when the condition of our hearts that led to the mess in the first place is challenged, healed, and turned onto a healthy, Christlike path.

All couples start off as Romeo and Juliet and end up as Laurel and Hardy.

Then he veiled Enkidu's face like a bride's. Like an eagle Gilgamesh circled around him, he paced in front of him, back and forth, like a lioness whose cubs are trapped in a pit

Whenever righteousness falters and chaos threatens to prevail, I take on a human body and manifest myself on earth.

Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch.