Quotes About Transformation

It is the very parts we perceive to be not-so-good that need our love the most. As it is only in love that what is hurting or what has been marginalized can be embraced, felt and transformed.

We blossom not in spite of but because of. I think of every experience as my teacher, most especially the difficult ones. I believe this is the role of suffering. Suffering cracks us open to allow for new light. Yet, we can choose to accept the light or hide under our bushel.

Radical self-acceptance enables us to sit at the feet of our life to be taught. Being taught transforms our fears and struggles into a kind of compost from which we may grow a more joyful life. And, along the way, we become a little more free of self-imposed obstacles and become a little more our Self. And, we are glad.

VITA MUTARI - the literal translation from Latin to English is "Life Transformation." That is the closest thing I could think of the feeling of labor/birth... what you are feeling isn't pain, it's life transformation. Is it dramatic? You bet! I think it should be!

It's the worst thing that could ever happen to a woman, and they know that. It's why it's their best weapon. But after months of healing physically, I'm going to accept that I'll never be the same. That's all right. I'm still strong. I'm just different. And to change is to live. To survive.

Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.

Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

Relaxing, embracing, surrendering, trusting - these are the only tools of a lover of truth. So, turn from warrior into a lover.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

From the moment we claim the truth of being the beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are.

Nothing is yet in its true form.

The success of God's Word in our lives is linked intrinsically to our application of its truth.

The truth is that, though we were justified by faith alone, the faith that justifies is never alone (it always produces fruit, 'good works,'...a transformed life).

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth.

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

Truth breaks you down so it can rebuild you according to its specifications in Heaven.

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

The sea drives truth into a man like salt.