Quotes About Transformation

What seems at first a cup of sorrow is found in the end immortal wine.

You are reborn with the roses, in every spring.

I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing...Silence...Waves... --Nothing happens? Or has everything happened, and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?

Nothing happens? Or has everything happened, and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life?

Love makes a subtle man out of a crude one, it gives eloquence to the mute, it gives courage the cowardly and makes the idle quick and sharp.

Yo sé cómo le brillaban antes los ojos como si fueran charcos alumbrados por la luna. Pero de pronto se destiñeron, se le borro la mirada como si la hubieran revolcado en la tierra.

Vivimos rompiendo nuestro mundo a cada rato...

la lluvia crecía cuando parecía morir, se alimentaba de sí misma para volver a subir, era un fuego de agua al que el viento manoseaba.

break this mountain to fill that valley

How odd that we always exclaim over children growing, as if in the ordinary run of things they shrink

But everything that never was is also a thing that might have been – and such a thing has more existence than you or I, for it has a thousand potential existences, and we have only the one we were born to. And of all those possibilities, what could be more fantastical a transformation?

Now to go on, now to be Ghost. It banishes the other ghosts from his side, for a time: being someone else. Leaving the world, he steps on stage. Now, the real turn into ghosts. Like a snail in reverse, he can only live away from the shell of himself.

Charovnik: This Russian term means "spellcaster" or "wizard" but also indicates a book of spells or grimoire. Among the legendary volumes listed in an old Russian index of prohibited books is something called Charovnik allegedly dedicated to teaching transformation skills. No copy of the book is currently known to exist.

According to Taoist belief, any fox that attains fifty years of age can shape-shift into a standard human.

Sometimes, wonderful, great fortune unexpectedly emerges phoenix-like from the ashes of disasters. Sometimes a crisis is required to spark needed transformation and growth.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Discovering a New Intelligence You never change things by fighting the existing reality. —To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. —BUCKMINSTER FULLER

We accept responsibility for ourselves when we acknowledge that ultimately there are no answers outside of ourselves, and no gurus, no teachers, and no philisophies that can solve the problems of our lives. They can only suggest, guide, and inspire. It is our dedication to living with open hearts and our commitment to the day-to-day details of our lives that will transform us.

Now, well beyond my teens, I feel that there is no such thing as wasted love. Any love that we experience holds great power - the power to transform both us and those we love. In fact, without love we cannot be transformed.

Sometimes I notice my yoga students practicing their less-than favorite poses with a ho-hum attitude. At the moments, I remind them that although yoga is powerful, it cannot transform us unless we love it. When we love, we are receptive to the other. When we love, we are vulnerable. Although being vulnerable can be frightening, it is also the doorway to the ultimate freedom.

Practice is not about what you get, it is about what you give. Whether you are driven or resistant, the medicine is the same: do what is truly possible with unwavering commitment to giving yourself to the moment. Without this intention, practice becomes another task to be completed, and it loses its ability to transform. And, transformation, or freedom, is the reason for all discipline.

consider that you can commit to little as five minutes a day. The highest form of discipline is consistency: powerful transformation can come from regularity.

It is our dedication to living with open hearts and our commitment to the day-to-day details of our lives that will transform us.

Some extraordinary survivors, recognizing that their suffering is part of a much larger social problem, are able to transform the meaning of their trauma by making their stories a gift to others and by joining with others to seek a better world.