Quotes About Transformation

I will repent me of my ways; I will come here and bury Five thousand odd superfluous days Beneath a flow'ring cherry.

anyone in horror's path is irrevocably altered.

Art is an organized response to what nature allows us to glimpse occasionally. Art sets out to transform the potential recognition into an unceasing one.

My knowledge tends to lead me to the conclusion that miracles do exist, that a man's life can be completely transformed. Perhaps fate is just an accident, but the important point is that it is beyond anybody's control. It happens to them. It can still happen to me. It is possible that my fate is still to be decided.

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won't be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.

Moreover, true repentance never exists except in conjunction with faith, while on the other hand, wherever there is true faith, there is also real repentance. The two are but different aspects of the same turning--a turning away from sin in the direction of God.

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

The major problem with the notion of transformation is that it forever hangs on to some form of self and never lets it go. It perpetuates the notion that self gets better and better, more and more divine, when in truth, the divine increases in proportion as the self decreases or falls away. The notion of a divinized self only increases or inflates the self; for those who buy into this notion, the journey may well end in total disillusionment. Offhand

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

Every major feature of the modern United States—from racial equality to Social Security, from the Pentagon to the suburb—represents a repudiation of Jeffersonianism.

It will, ultimately, become all that it can be; it will fulfill its potential and thereby enrich God. Every experience of every consciousness will return to the infinite intelligence from which it sprang, but transformed by having lived in and experienced the universe.

We have two lives — the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

Do we not owe the Growth of Wine To the dry shabby crooked Vine?

Dans le brasier initial l'hydrogène se transforme en hélium, l'atome à peine plus complexe que lui. Mais déjà, de cette transformation on peut déduire la première grande règle du jeu de notre univers : TOUJOURS PLUS COMPLEXE.

she misses the people they used to be, when they were all discovering themselves with no idea how much they might change in the years to come

Truth is, both of us was desperate to be anything other than what we was.

I've fallen in love properly for the first time in my life with the most wonderful woman I've ever met, who desires me from a position of inner strength, Amma, and it might sound odd but that's so new to me and darned sexy, like she can rip my clothes off whenever she wants to (which she does) and I feel helpless and dominated (which I like), whereas my previous lovers desired me from a position of weakness, of adoration, which just isn't interesting to me any more

it felt like she was coming in from the cold

she had to give up her independence and submit completely? wasn't that being like a male chauvinist? Dominique felt like an altered version of herself after a while, her mind foggy, emotions primal, senses heightened she enjoyed the sex and affection – outside in the fields when summer arrived, wantonly naked in the heat, unworried about anyone coming across them, what Nzinga called Dominique's sexual healing, as if she'd

i love Britain, too, Ams, although less so every time I return, it's become a living memory for me, Britain feels in the past, even when I'm in its present.

Devant le mystère il convient de s'ouvrir et de se dévoiler tout entier afin de forcer le mystère à se dévoiler à son tour.

Al'inizio lo feci malvolentieri, lo facevo unicamente per dar retta allo Scocciatore, sperando unicamente che la smettesse di tormentarmi. Ma poi ci presi gusto e mi ci dedicai anima e corpo. Avevo scoperto il piacere di scrivere e di ricordare, capivo che in questo modo mi sarei finalmente liberata dal peso del passato e che la penna, come un aratro, avrebbe smosso il terreno della memoria e gli avrebbe dato ordine.

If probation of final bliss he not accomplished or successfully achieved in one life, another life is entered upon, and then, if necessary, a third.