Quotes About Transformation

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

They drove, the city slowly dissolving around them and breaking up into fields and trees.

You know," she had said, "I believe we are all given at least one moment in our lives when the world reveals itself to us, in all its workings. We comprehend everything at once, and then forget almost all of it a second later, because none of us could hold it all in our heads. But we are changed afterward," shaking her head, "in a most profound way.

Her biggest influence in persuading Noah was in prayer. When Noah was blinded by his own stubbornness, she would ask Elohim to soften his heart. Elohim had a way of opening Noah's eyes better than anyone else could. She did not believe that Elohim had abandoned them. She was sure he was planning something very significant to make his point. It would take something big to transform Noah to accomplish his calling. Elohim was like that.

Uriel looked back up from where he came and muttered, "Now that is a deep pit." "You came back for me," Noah blubbered, barely able to speak. Uriel smiled with a big grin. "You know Elohim. He hounds you until you freely obey." He had that hint of irony that Noah had learned to love so dearly. Noah burst out laughing in tears. Uriel could see that Noah was a new man. He shared the laugh with Noah, helped his weak companion to his feet, and embraced him.

David said to Saul, "Sorry, my lord. Forgive my incompetence." He began to play the coronation psalm he had played for Jonathan on the hillside. Its effect on Saul was immediate. A peace came over him. The whisperer went away. His tension released and his nervous twitching and ticks vanished. It seemed as if his mind all of a sudden became clear and he could even see more clearly with his eyes. It was like a fog had been lifted from over his mind.

Joshua said, "She is not a harlot." Though they were facing certain death in the hands of the enemy, Rahab's soul rose with hope at the words of Joshua. To hear that pronouncement from the very leader of Israel's lips made her believe her identity had been transformed. She was a daughter of Israel, an adopted child of Yahweh, the living god. Her past was dead and gone.

Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding...

Option one—whirl around

I was addicted to the Hokey Pokey, but I turned myself around!

Let me see what I can come up with,' she said, and seemed to take a new satisfaction in it now. Something wrong to do, a law to break, and if she was lucky she might even get to steal, and it must have been then that everything changed between us and each of us didn't just have a neighbor to pass the time with but the closest thing either of us could find to a friend. ("Just Outside Our Windows, Deep Inside Our Walls")

For the first time she realized she'd spent so much time mourning a world that had ended ages ago, hoping to resurrect it, that she'd never paid attention to what it was becoming. Or returning to again, now that it was unfettered. Where were the centaurs, she might have asked instead. Where were the gorgons, the furies, the giants and the gods?

My mutilation was accomplished when I was a child of seven. I no longer remember myself any other way.

In the words of Meister Eckhart, "Cease to be this or that, and to have this and that, then you are all things and have all things, and so, being neither here nor there, you are everywhere…you are everything…what remains is nothing but God."40 In the end, says St. Paul, we become one with the risen, cosmic body of Christ, "the fullness of the one who fills all in all" (Eph. 1:23).

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

it's strange to look at your reflection in the mirror and see the person you really are staring back at you, rather than the person who you used to be.

Sometimes a soul learns to love by becoming what it most despised.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness . . . the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your spiritual progress.

It is as if a large diamond were to be found inside each person. Picture a diamond a foot long. The diamond has a thousand facets, but the facets are covered with dirt and tar. It is the job of the soul to clean each facet until the surface is brilliant and can reflect a rainbow of colors.

Many were able to rid themselves of chronic lifelong symptoms, such as specific phobias, panic attacks, recurrent nightmares, unexplained fears, obesity, repeated destructive relationships, physical pain and illness, and so on. This is not a placebo effect. Generally, these are not people who are gullible or suggestible. They remember—names, dates, geography, details. And after they remember, like Catherine, they become cured.

Christian faith for me is no longer a static location but a great spiritual journey. And that changes everything.

She watched the glass, a plain woman, changing all to the delightful illusion of beauty. There was still time: for her ugliness was destined to bloom late, hidden first by the unformed gawkiness of youth, budding to plainness in young womanhood and now flowering to slow maturity in her early forties, it still awaited the subtle garishness which only decay could bring to fruition: a garishness which, when arrived at, would preclude all efforts at the mirror game.