Quotes About Transformation

When an enlightened person appears, the Way echoes like the majestic sound of the rising tide. When the tide rises, all false views are swept away.

As the pot slowly fills up with water, drop by drop, so does the fool, little by little, become evil.

Faith is having a path that leads you to freedom, liberation, and the transformation of afflictions.

Outwardness does to inwardness what light does to darkness: it chases it away.

I was free to see a different past along with a different present and future. I was freed from the limitations and distortions of the box.

you carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. Always you will see that within you the shadow and the light are equal: you have an ability, you also have the negation of this ability. But, if you discover a very black hole, a thick shadow, be sure that somewhere in you there is a great light. It is up to you to know how to use the one to realize the other.

To Be young is to be always ready to give up what we are in order to become what we must be. To be young is never to accept the irreparable.

Be grateful for all ordeals, they are the shortest way to the Divine.

You take up the spiritual path only when you feel you cannot do otherwise.

Seek to do what is easy, comfortable and familiar and you will stay right where you are, bound to the past and bound to all the deceptions that have plagued you in the past, unable to proceed, unable to advance, unable to learn and unable to accomplish what you came here to accomplish.

Art respects the masses, by confronting them as that which they could be, rather than conforming to them in their degraded state.

She had wandered the streets of Vienna and Budapest. No wonder she felt different. Perhaps travel did that to you. Mary had come home, but she was not the same Mary who had left—not quite.

Moreau made me, but Edward taught me to be human.

Our world will never be changed until individuals have changed, and individuals will never change until religion as inner transformation has penetrated to the hearts of their beings and made them into new persons. Change happens one human being at a time. It is your transformation, my transformation, that will make a difference in this wondrous but troubled world of ours, as we become who we truly are.

That's why this matter of inner peace is so important, because it lays a groundwork for that new life, that theosis, that transformation, that link with God, the ultimate destiny of our Spirits - not in the afterlife, but right here and now.

I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs, Yet, like a tree, endure the shift of things.

Love alters all. Unblood my instinct, love.

Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant, The burning lake turns into a forest pool, The fire subsides into rings of water, A sunlit silence.

She knows the speech of light, and makes it plain A lively thing can come to life again.

Oh, to be something else, yet still to be!

In a dark time, the eye begins to see

Yes. I quite understand Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I'm giving away everything I had—clothes, gifts, everything, and I'm getting new ones, for the same reason. Not because I hate the sight of them and what they represent, but because I'd rather not have them around.

Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself. Do not suppress it—simply be aware of it. Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed. When you are aware that you are angry, your anger is transformed. If you destroy anger, you destroy the Buddha, for Buddha and Mara are of the same essence. Mindfully dealing with anger is like taking the hand of a little brother.

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.