Quotes About Transformation

I am the true medicine [says Wisdom], correcting and transmuting that which is no longer into that which it was before its corruption, and that which is not into that which it ought to be." * (Ibid., p. 459).

whereby the planetary spirits who are needed in order to unite the spirit or soul with the body, and to transform the latter, are compelled to descend

The secret is that only that which can destroy itself is truly alive. Life that just happens in and for itself is not real life; it is real only when it is known.

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light," he said, "but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.

No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

The point behind mysticism is not to dazzle the mind with ecstatic wonders or heady feelings, but to foster real and lasting changes, for the purpose of becoming more like Christ, which is to say, more compassionate, more forgiving, more committed to serving others and making the world a better place.

Will it be salt or late light that it melts like?

There is a glamour, even to a thing undoing itself

How they made out of shamelessness something beautiful, for as long as they could.

Poems are not the transcription of experience but the transformation of experience."-Carl Phillips @CPhillipsPoet

a person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits.

we cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.

I like to think of myself as a quiet revolutionary.

colossal rigidity, whether in dinosaurs or dictatorships, has a very poor record of evolutionary survival.

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

I have come to feel that the more fully the individual is understood and accepted, the more he tends to drop the false fronts with which he has been meeting life, and the more he tends to move in a direction which is forward.

It will be clear that the very expression of this fear is a part of becoming what he is. Instead of simply being a façade, as if it were himself, he is coming closer to being himself, namely a frightened person hiding behind a façade because he regards himself as too awful to be seen.

Thus, he is to show people that all their righteousness is as filthy rags and as reliable a leaning post as a spider's web; and that, counterintuitive and countercultural as it may be, true righteousness, mercy, and grace are to be found in the filthy and broken corpse of a man condemned as a criminal to hang on a cross. This is the preaching of law and gospel, and it carries with it transformative power.

Lay me on an anvil, O God.Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar.Let me pry loose old walls.Let me lift and loosen old foundations.

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

A male was transformed into a man by the willful expenditure of energy. Above all, a man willed himself to be expendable. Like the sun, a man fed the fire of his honor on his own substance. The magnus animus, the animus virilis, squandered itself in contempt of its own dear life.

to be a kind of leaven there.

Entropy derives from the Greek "conversion", "mutation", "evolution", but also "confusion" and "shame" (this latter meaning one finds in the writings of Hippocrates in the form ).