Quotes About Transformation

The basic formula for profound alchemical change is solve et coagula, which means: to first utterly dissolve (solve) an existing form and then to carefully bring the dissolved and purified elements together again (coagula) in a whole new, more potent and finely organized, permutation.

But Jung also pointed out: "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

The role of your genius spirit is to essentially heal, transform, and evolve consciousness.

This life is not the same as your other life.

My rhythm was joined with that of the Mississippi seasons. To change would shift everything inside of me...

Her smile hollowed out his chest. She'd changed since last he saw her. She was brighter. More vibrant. Happiness suited her.

The future's written in water.

It's like you wake up one morning, and decided that how you've been in the past doesn't have to define who you are in the future. Simple as that.

He had no idea there even was a before until he crashed hard into the after.

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy

You may know that a cascade of water can wear away stone, but you can't predict what shape the rock will take at any given moment.

The unexpected thing, the miraculous thing, is when a car that's been shattered in a crash, that's been left in the rain to rust for years at a time, can be coaxed to growl to a start and slowly begin rolling down the hill.

Read my story, walk through these woods, and when you get to the other side, you may not even realize that you're carrying something out that you didn't have when you went in. A little tick of an idea, clinging to your scalp or hidden in a fold of skin. Somewhere out of sight. By the time you discover it, it's already begun to prey on you; perhaps it's merely gouged your flesh, or perhaps it's already begun to nibble away at your central nervous system.

a way of looking at the world that changed my life,

This is how it works, she thought. When the world becomes something new, it seems always to have been that way.

But now it is Norris's privilege and pleasure to see her as no one else does, for he has been struck by love for Vida. And in his eyes, under the transforming inspection of his gaze?well, who can tell? Vida may become something more than she appears at the very moment, waiting quietly on her bench, the world breathing delicately around her.

You could see that it only wanted some attention to be beautiful again.

I had never been Princess Leia before and now I would be her forever. I would never not be Princess Leia. I had no idea how profoundly true that was and how long forever was.

If wishes were horses mine would be glue -

They want you," he continued. There was a silence. "They do? I mean they did?" He laughed, then I laughed and dropped the phone and ran out into the front yard and into the street. It was raining. It didn't rain in L.A. It was raining in L.A. and I was Princess Leia. I had never been Princess Leia before and now I would be her forever. I would never not be Princess Leia. I had no idea how profoundly true that was and how long forever was.

Take your broken heart and make it to the heart.

I had in no way intended to risk my life. I just wanted to turn the sound down and smooth all of my sharp corners.

when the tide comes in, it's all good. But when the tide goes out, the mood that cannot and should not be named comes over you and into you. Because to name it would be an act of summoning.

You will be a great queen when you come back, you know. And someday you'll love me the way you love your wolf.