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Quotes About Transformation

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.
~ Leo Tolstoy
As one of us transforms we activate transformational energies in others, which enables them to more readily reconnect with the wisdom of their innate creative source.
~ Julia Hill
For this freedom I have given all I had For this darkness I gave my light For this wisdom I have lost my innocence Take my petals And cover me with the night
~ Emilie Autumn
When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
~ William Morris
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
~ Georg Baselitz
Your kundalini rises. She is your mother. She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you get connected to the Divine Paradise.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Don't solve your problems, dissolve your problems - so that they should not recur again.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.
~ Anthony D. Williams
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God. It is through the heart that the Lord is seen, and not through the intellect.
~ Swami Vivekananda
India is at one with the most puritan faiths of the world in her declaration that progress is from seen to unseen, from the many to the One, from the low to the high, from the form to the formless, and never in the reverse direction.
~ Swami Vivekananda
One moment of company with the holy makes a ship to cross this ocean of life." Such is the power of association.
~ Swami Vivekananda
It is the subjective world that rules the objective. Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify yourself, and the world is bound to be purified.
~ Swami Vivekananda
They become what they think. We will become [only] by [degrees].
~ Swami Vivekananda
Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.
~ Swami Vivekananda
On the philosophic side the disciples of the Great Master dashed themselves against the eternal rocks of the Vedas and could not crush them, and on the other side they took away from the nation that eternal God to which every one, man or woman, clings so fondly. And the result was that Buddhism had to die a natural death in India. At the present day there is not one who calls oneself a Buddhist in India, the land of its birth. But
~ Swami Vivekananda
Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Nothing Is Final, Change Is Always Possible If You Have The Courage To Make It Happen.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
Stan Well you can take the girl outta the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park outta the girl.
~ Swordfish
Go out into the world where your heart calls you. The blessings will come, I promise you that. I wish for you the insight to recognize the blessings as such, and sometimes it's hard. But you'll know it's a blessing if you are enriched and transformed by the experience. So be ready. There are great souls and teachers everywhere. It's your job to recognize them.
~ Sy Montgomery
Every revolution evaporates," said Kafka, "leaving behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy." This is true not only of governments, but of individuals: the moment of realization, of inspiration, becomes institutionalized, trivialized.
~ Sy Safransky
Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
~ Sydney Harris
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves.
~ Sydney Madwed