Quotes About Transformation

I judge a novel by whether or not it turns my blood into starlight.

What began as a declaration of religious independence from Rome transformed over the years into a virulent doctrine of Saxon/Teutonic racial superiority over

Poverty is about relationships that don't work, that isolate, that abandon or devalue. Transformation must be about restoring relationships, just and right relationships with God, with self, with community, with the "other," and with the environment.

If there is to be any human transformation that is sustainable, it will be because of the action of the Holy Spirit, not the effectiveness of our development technology or the cleverness of our participatory processes

Both the poor and the non-poor need to recover their true identity and their true vocation. Everyone is poor in God's world, and everyone is in need of transformation.

Wish for the happiness of your enemies, for if they are happy, they are your enemy no more.

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.

Surrender is not a weakness, or state of inaction, but rather a powerful state of pure energy; the energy of becoming your true purpose.

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

Changing yourself changes everything.

Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one.

The revolution of consciousness is connected to the food revolution.

Turn towards love, and become love.

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.

The spark once transmitted may smoulder for generations under ashes, but the appointed time will come, and it will flare up to warm the world. God never allows waste. And we fools rub our eyes and wonder, when we see genius come out of the gutter. It didn't begin there. We tell ourselves that Shakespeare was the son of a woolpedlar, and Napoleon of a farmer, and Luther of a peasant, and we hold up our hands at the marvel. But who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry!

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

Personal growth will cause a ripple effect as the growth in consciousness of enough people, one by one, can create general change, and lasting social improvements.

It is no small task to learn to see our depression, anxiety, weight, relationship problems, addictions, and illnesses as efforts of our psyche to heal us—as symptoms that are trying to get us to change, in ways that will help our lives become better on a more profound level. Jung calls learning to value our problems and how they can lead us into becoming transformed, the "teleological aspects" of symptoms.