Quotes About Transformation

The Root Text of the Seven Points of Training the Mind, and on the commentary by Jamgön Kongtrül.

At first, the mountains are mountains and streams are streams. Then, the mountains are not mountains and streams are not streams. But in the end, mountains are mountains again and streams are streams again.

Train in the three difficulties.

Then you have to apply a technique or antidote to overcome it.

Gone, gone, gone beyond, completely exposed, awake, so be it.

There is a saying in the Tibetan scriptures: "Knowledge must be burned, hammered, and beaten like pure gold. Then one can wear it as an ornament." So when you receive spiritual instruction from the hands of another, you do not take it uncritically, but you burn it, you hammer it, you beat it, until the bright, dignified color of gold appears. Then you craft it into an ornament, whatever design you like, and you put it on.

Chad Davidson

To anyone reading this who has ever felt disheartened and confused, hurt or lost...you are not alone. You are surrounded by countless multitudes of people everywhere who are just like you. Just like us. But you don't have to stay confused or lost or in pain. We might forget this sometimes - or may not know it at all. But there is nothing in your life, no matter how difficult or painful, that cannot be turned into something very beautiful. So please, have lots of hope.

I found the power to move beyond the steps, to not merely dance the part but to become it.

A person becomes great not by sitting on some high seat, but through higher qualities. A crow does not become an eagle by simply sitting on the top of a palatial building.

Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

And while it's easy to say this is a situation to be avoided, isn't this what we also fear and crave simultaneously, that some internal force which defies understanding might remake us into the people we dream we are?

When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape.

Life begins at night

May you allow fear to soften and melt away. May you release all regrets and resentments.

I have not cared to pile up more dry bones, but to clothe them with flesh and blood.

15 minutes a day! Give me just this and I'll prove I can make you a new man.

This life is a hospital where each patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.

The Revolution had been made by voluptuaries.

I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

This life is a hospital, where each patient is possessed by a desire to change beds.

Before I met Oscar, I was fine. But then I met him, and I knew him, and I loved him, and he died, and after that, in an Oscarless world, I couldn't go back to the way I was before I knew him, because I wasn't the same person anymore. He mutated me.

And if I could change my peer-driven party-animal self, maybe I could change everything.

The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.