Quotes About Transformation

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

It seemed to her that she had never known what the night was like before. Up till now it had been dark, silent, beautiful very often - oh yes - but mournful somehow. Solemn. And now it would never be like that again - it had opened dazzling bright.

I believe that people are like portmanteaux - packed with certain things, started going, thrown about, tossed away, dumped down, lost and found, half emptied suddenly, or squeezed fatter than ever, until finally the Ultimate Porter swings them on to the Ultimate Train and away they rattle...

Not at all; I don't believe in the human soul. I never have. I believe that people are like portmanteaux—packed with certain things, started going, thrown about, tossed away, dumped down, lost and found, half emptied suddenly, or squeezed fatter than ever, until finally the Ultimate Porter swings them on to the Ultimate Train and away they rattle.…

Bir ÅŸey elden gittiyse gitti demektir. Sona ermiÅŸ, bitmiÅŸtir. O zaman b?rak?n gitsin! Görmezden gelin onu, eÄŸer avunmaya ihtiyac?n?z varsa, yitirilen ÅŸeylerin asla geri gelmediÄŸini düÅŸünerek avutun kendinizi: Gelse bile yeni bir ÅŸeydir art?k, her seferinde yeni, baÅŸka bir ÅŸeydir. Elinizden ç?kt??? anda deÄŸiÅŸime uÄŸram??t?r.

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.

When the source of the anger is understood and enough of the old feelings are released, the natural force behind the anger can be transmuted into intention. When the anger is fully expressed over time, the powerful energy that was used first to deny that it existed, then to facilitate its expression, still remains. This energy can be transformed into strength of purpose, power of intention to shape life the way we want it to be.

We can only become enlightened by acknowledging and releasing what weighs us down: the shadow aspect of the psyche that carries the burden of the past.

You know what they say of revolutionaries—'Once it is over, we must vanish, for the fire that destroys cannot build.

Cuando hayas identificado ese miedo, ese miedo que es el origen de todos lo demás, entonces ya no tendrás ningún miedo y, por fin, te convertirás en ti misma.

On maudit une épreuve, mais on ne sait pas, quand elle nous arrive, qu'elle va nous faire grandir et nous emmener ailleurs.

Al casarse, se hacía por fin inteligible. Dejaba de ser un genio desgarbado para convertirse en una mujer como las demás, con un corazón que conquistar, un vientre que fecundar, un piso a decorar.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?

You cannot do this course effectively on the level of intellect. In other words, while it's fine to read through the course before going back to actually do the practices, I can promise you authentic movement in your life only to the extent that you are willing to do the course and not just read the course.

What's waking up in me as a result of my rage? How can I use the intensity of this energy to fuel positive change in my life? What rights am I now willing to stand up for?

It's only after we have felt the sting of remorse and become present to the costs of our confusion that we're given the chance to redeem ourselves with a pledge to do things differently.

What makes life worth living is being actively engaged in becoming the finest, most delicious human being you can possibly be in this lifetime.

Katherine Woodward Thomas

There are a million little ways that a marriage grows apart, most too mundane to mention. Yet what happened to Mark and me, in a nutshell, is that I changed. And I mean, I radically and in many ways quite unfairly, changed. It's kind of an occupational hazard—the downside of being a teacher

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. WILLIAM STAFFORD

I don't know that we ever 'get rid' of our woundedness. Our wounding experiences are a part of our history. We can, however, give up defining ourselves by what happened to us in the past. We can stop identifying ourselves with the pain that we have suffered. This is not a denial of what we've been through but, rather, an awareness that the essence of who we are is far, far beyond it.