Quotes About Transformation

The education of the Soul is the Great Work.

One danger is that the person will strive very hard in spiritual disciplines as a way of avoiding or burying deep pain. Eventually, however, he or she will realize that the spiritual path must bring everything to light.

Water says to the dirty, "Come here" The dirty one says, "I am so ashamed". Water says, "How will your shame be washed away without me?" Rumi, Mathnawi II: 1366-67

Realization, in its fullest meaning, is not merely knowing something, but making it real in oneself. We come to this essential Self through a process of deconditioning, reconditioning, and unconditioning. This can also be described as minimizing what is negative, increasing what is positive, and, ultimately, opening to Spirit.

There's a transformative power that exists in the nature of Reality. There is something that can almost miraculously transform human beings. We need that. (p. 3)

Hey, Aidan! I have been going on the last couple years.

To make a really effective monster you need to begin with a good man, and tell him lies … Edward

Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Wartime compelled some mild-mannered men to contemplate what was once unthinkable

How are you?" Rosa shrugged her shoulders. "My sister turned into a giant snake last night. And your cousin Tano—" "Second cousin." "He was there too. He was a tiger. I recognized him from his eyes. Then I fainted." She looked at him. "How does that sound?

The eyes of the wolf, loving and longing and loyal, were now set squarely in the face of a man, but they were still staring at me with that same devotion, that same puppyish desire. I could feel my heart breaking quietly as I stared at him - a break that I knew was but the smallest echo of what I had made him feel when I broke his heart by the banks of the Crystal River.

Somewhere in the last few months, it's like someone has flicked a switch and he's gone from "cute looking boy" to "muscular sexy man" just like that.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow

Aunt Sookie was right. This summer is going to be really different, a summer everyone will remember.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

You should be proud of what you're becoming." Jack Simple to Celestra Caine from FADE by Kailin Gow

I don't feel like my humanity is slipping away, or like my power is a curse. For once, it feels like I'm doing what I was always meant to do.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Celestra Caine, you are about to fade." - FADE by Kailin Gow.

We're still in the U.S. if that helps," the young man says. "But like I said, you're not in Kansas anymore. You're off the map, down the rabbit hole, and so far through the looking glass that going back… well, that probably won't ever happen, Celestra." - Jack Simple, FADE by Kailin Gow

Aunt Sookie's Malibu pad had always been magical. It was where they could be anyone or anything they wanted. ", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow

It's like watching a sculptor work, the body coming through roughly in the first few seconds, then in more and more detail.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Great, so now I'm the Loch Ness Monster. ", Celestra Caine, FADE by Kailin Gow

We'll make a hero of you yet, young villain!