Quotes About Transformation

If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. Now we can add a codicil: If you bring forth what is within you, it will save the world.

Struggle," says Swami Kripalu, "changes an ordinary human into a spiritually awake person.

Yogic practice intentionally re-creates the physical structure: the musculoskeletal, neurological, digestive, respiratory, circulatory, and immune systems are all literally remade through the regular practice of postures and conscious breathing.

The tortured clinging to an earlier expression of The Gift very often precedes the emergence of some new version. We're aware of the dryness at the center, yes, but this aridity is usually not quite enough to propel us forward. We must first get just a whiff of the new. The surprising and intoxicating whiff of a new dharma is quite irresistible.

De Caussade nails this point: "This work in our souls cannot be accomplished by cleverness, intelligence, or any subtlety of mind, but only by completely abandoning ourselves to the divine action, becoming like metal poured into a mold

When [God] is moving you toward a new consciousness, you need to recognize the winds of change at once, move with them instead of clinging to what is already gone." Wow.

Beethoven's music has changed my life. What has it given me? It has given me not only inspiration and hope, but a visceral way to work through my own neurotic conflicts—a path through my own inner tangles. Every time I play his sonata, I touch a part of myself that nothing else can reach. And afterward, I have the distinct feeling of having been sorted out.

We work first because we have to work. Then because we want to work. Then because we love to work. Then the work simply does us. Difficult at the beginning. Inevitable at the end.

Precise acts and feelings and decisions were infinitely more effective than the blundering idiocy I called my life. —Carlos Castaneda Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan

Marion Woodman. The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation. Inner City: Toronto, 1997

Marion Woodman. Rolling Away the Stone. Sounds True Recordings: Boulder, CO, 1989.

Intensive practice provided Beethoven with the tools to symbolically and energetically transform his experience. It gave him an increasing experience of self-efficacy and self-esteem, and provided him with an experience of fun. Finally, it came to provide him with a profound sense of purpose, accomplishment, and meaning. It turns out that these qualities of dharma can rescue even a life in peril.

Initiations are opportunities for us to grow larger. They are death channels. And they are birth channels. They allow us the opportunity to integrate more of our self—more possibility, more reality, more sensation, more feeling. They require everything we've got. They destroy us to re-create us.

Marion's view allowed her experience with cancer to be full of meaning, to be replete with possibility, and it enabled Death to bring her more deeply into Life. She got the initiation.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle.

So it came to pass that as he trudged from the place of blood and wrath his soul changed.

I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.

If you are thinking about Agile as a set of tools and processes, you're looking for the wrong thing. You can't go to the store and "buy some Agile management.

In other words, firms don't have to be "born Agile," like Spotify. Even big, old firms can undertake an Agile transformation if they set their minds and hearts to it—and stick with it.

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.

When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.

May you turn stone, my daughter, into silk. May you make men better than they are.

Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.