Quotes About Transformation

Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

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Psihologia individului corespunde îns? psihologiei naÈ›iunilor. Ceea ce fac naÈ›iunile face È™i individul È™i, atâta timp cât face individul, face È™i naÈ›iunea. Doar schimbarea atitudinii individului este începutul schimb?rii psihologiei naÈ›iunii. Marile probleme ale omenirii nu au fost niciodat? rezolvate prin legi generale, ci întotdeauna doar prin reînnoirea atitudinii individului.

Es sorprendente la transformación que se opera en el carácter de un individuo al irrumpir en él las fuerzas colectivas. Un ser humano afable y sensato puede tornarse un maníaco o una bestia salvaje.

With a painful slice, I cut off what I pretended to know about what lies beyond me. I excise myself from the cunning interpretative loops that I gave to what lies beyond me. And my knife cuts even deeper and separates me from the meaning that I conferred upon myself. I cut down to the marrow, until everything meaningful falls from me, until I am no longer as I might seem to myself, until I know only that I am without knowing what I am.

The sacrifice of the animal means, therefore, the sacrifice of the animal nature, the instinctual libido.

if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.

Whoever goes into the mirror of the water will first see his own face[:] whoever goes to himself risks a confrontation with himself. [...] Whoever looks into the water sees his own image, but behind it living creatures soon loom up.

What nature leaves imperfect, the art perfects

Quite forgetting the dying Beast's ugliness, Beauty ministers to him. He tells her that he was unable to live without her, and that he will die happy now that she has returned. But Beauty realizes that she cannot live without Beast, that she has fallen in love with him. She tells him so, and promises to be his wife if only he will not die.

It is, unfortunately, only too clear that if the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of the individuals in need of redemption.

ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new centre [i.e., self] attracts to itself that which is proper to it.80 As a

No new life can arise, say the alchemists, without the death of the old. They liken the art to the work of the sower, who buries the grain in the earth: it dies only to waken to new life.

That the highest summit of life can be expressed through the symbolism of death is a well-known fact, for any growing beyond oneself means death.

Only gradually did I discover what the mandala really is: "Formation, Transformation, Eternal Mind's eternal recreation.

The redeeming symbol is a highway, a way upon which life can move forward without torment and compulsion.

The foremost of his therapeutic principles is that conscious realization is an important agent for transforming the personality. The

Esto le llevó a concluir que «con el paso de los siglos, Occidente producirá su propio yoga, y será sobre las bases establecidas por el cristianismo»51

When such an invasion happens, we are often faced with a situation in which the unconscious overtakes or "takes over" the conscious mind. The latter has somehow got stuck, with the result that the unconscious takes over the forward-striving function, the process of transformation in time, and breaks the deadlock. The contents then pouring into consciousness are archetypal representations of what the conscious mind should have experienced if deadlock was to be avoided.

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Even the worst scenes could be improved by a layer of white snow.

We used to have a pretty good country. At least I think we did. Then something happened. It's our fault 'cause we let it. We used to be a people who had a government," he said, looking up, his eyes fierce again. "Now it's the other way around.

We know the inner call to lay down our lives for one another because He laid down His life for us. What a powerful death! The cross ransoms, the cross liberates, the cross transforms!