Quotes About Transformation

You live in the light, and then you become the night.

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to be transfigured.

Olivia had changed so much since then. She had changed in ways she would never have been able to anticipate. She had become the kind of person who was barely able to get out of bed in the morning without buckling beneath the tidal pull of the planets.

I'm not sure what happened to me over the last few days. I lost myself, I think. I sank down into a hole for a while. They're tricky things, holes. You don't know you're in one until you get out.

Tethered to our smart phones, we are too caught up and distracted to take the time necessary to sort through complexity or to locate submerged purpose . In our urgent rush to get "there," we are going everywhere but being nowhere. Far too busy managing with transactive speed, we rarely step back to lead with transformative significance.

Change challenges our current reality by forcing a new reality to rush in.

Leaders bring clarity and hope." No easy task in the vortex of VUCA. Johansen contends that we have "to flip the VUCA forces to terms that create possibilities and redefine VUCA as: Vision; Understanding; Clarity; Agility.

If the disruptive change brought about by the Internet challenged you, brace yourself: multiple emerging technologies will combine to create an unprecedented period of change in the next few years.

The rivers that sprang from Hvergelmir streamed into the void. The yeasty venom in them thickened and congealed like slag, and the rivers turned into ice.

Everything, I thought, everything keeps changing. Changing shape, changing colour, changing sound.

The difference can be summed up in one word: authorization. I don't need authorization to get in. It's the word that instantly transforms me from the World's Most Wanted Hacker to one of the Most Wanted Security Experts in the world. Just like magic.

Reading a book carves brand-new neural pathways into the ancient cortical bedrock of our brains. It transforms the way we see the world. Makes us, as Nicholas Carr puts it in his recent essay 'The Dreams of Readers', 'more alert to the inner lives of others'. We become vampires without being bitten. In other words, more empathic. Books make us see in a way that casual immersion in the Internet, and the quickfire virtual world it offers, doesn't.

Leer un libro va tallando senderos neuronales totalmente nuevos en el antiguo lecho de roca cortical de nuestro cerebro. Transforma la manera que tenemos de ver el mundo. Nos hace más alerta a la vida interior de los demás.

We become vampires without being bitten—in other words, more empathic.

Father in heaven, we confess to you that we don't pray as we ought. Ignite our hearts with the fiery darts of your Spirit to enable us to pray. Create in us a life of unceasing prayer. Stoke the fire of prayer in our church to a new intensity so that we are changed, as well as the people around us. Jesus, we lift up your name; we plead with you to draw people to yourself. Turn our church around for your glory, now and forevermore! In Jesus' name. Amen.

The Buddha said everything starts with thoughts; that we speak and act based on thoughts; that our words and actions turn into habits—or addictions; and that those habits shape our character into something inflexible. So, he says, "Watch the thought and its ways with care, and let it spring from love born out of concern for all beings…. As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become." This

to counter negativity in the mind is a classical Buddhist teaching called "replacing with the opposite";

The sky was full - of blue and sun. The ocean reflected it and was flat and glossy like a fancy ballroom floor. To Martha, this was the most beautiful sight, a miracle. The ocean made her feel insignificant and slightly afraid, but in an exhilarating way. Her inclination was not to walk or dance across the water's surface. Nor to swim through it. She wanted to *be* the ocean

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life... And someone who realizes that it can't possibly be enough.

The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life … and someone who realizes that it can't possibly be enough.

Luke smiled at his friend. "I seem to remember you called the Force a 'hokey religion' when I first met you." Han looked away, embarrassed. "Well, I've gotten smarter since then.

Doctrine forms disciples when it helps the church to act out its new life in Christ.

You'll simply plug into the grid and get AI as if it was electricity. It will enliven inert objects, much as electricity did more than a century past.