Quotes About Transformation

The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.

The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim. Who can say of a particular sea that it is old? Distilled by the sun, kneaded by the moon, it is renewed in a year, in a day, or in an hour. The sea changed, the fields changed, the rivers, the villages, and the people changed, yet Egdon remained.

There is not one familiar face Where many loved me once! I speak aloud--the lonely place Returns no kind response! Where I and others roved, I see Another roving race; Gay smiles are there--but ah! for me, Not one familiar face!

The astonishment soon passed off, the scales seemed to drop from his eyes, and the book became at once and for ever to him the great human and divine book, and the men and women, whom he had looked upon as something quite different from himself, became his friends and counsellors.

the bad stuff will ultimately turn good if you wait long enough, and the good stuff will turn bad over time.

Old Temples will fall. New Temples will be built. Temples to The Red Dragon" - The UR-Prophecy, received in Marrakesh, Morocco, 1989.

If you want to be free, he suggests, if you want to heal your relationship with God, with others and yourself, enter your inner room—the office, where the Divine Therapy takes place. Close the door so you don't run away. Quiet your interior dialogue so that you can listen to what the Spirit is saying to you.

Divine love is infused in the seedbed of total submission and self-surrender and brings us through the night of spirit into the transforming union.

The false self is deeply entrenched. You can change your name and address, religion, country, and clothes. But as long as you don't ask it to change, the false self simply adjusts to the new environment.

When we taste the goodness of God and experience the humility that arises spontaneously from that relationship, the programs glorified by the false self and our cultural conditioning diminish in size and no longer exercise the fascination that used to hold them in place.

For human beings, the most daunting challenge is to become fully human. For to become fully human is to become fully divine.

The false self is deeply entrenched. You can change your name and address, religion, country, and clothes. But as long as you don't ask it to change, the false self simply adjusts to the new environment. For example, instead of drinking your friends under the table as a significant sign of self-worth and esteem, if you enter a monastery, as I did, fasting the other monks under the table could become your new path to glory.

he experience of the transforming union is a way of being in the world that enables us to live daily life with the invincible conviction of continuous union with God. It is a new way of being in the world, a way

Now we are entertaining the suggestion that the real work of prayer is just to get rid of the very assumption that was the foundation of all these other modes of prayer. It is a matter of shifting the location of the sense of identity. We have to accept the idea that the word I does not have a fixed and clear and obvious referent. This is where the transformation that we undergo becomes more and more radical with each breakthrough or illumination.

The head that once was crowned with thorns Is crowned with glory now.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

Is the child in that old photograph really an erstwhile version of you, your little hand waving farewell? The face of that child is nothing like the face you have now. That child's face is now melding with the blackness behind you, before you, around you. The child is waving and smiling and fading as your car keeps skidding toward your abruptly curtailed future. Bye-bye.

He ceased to be a person so that he could remain a successful organism.

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.

College is supposed to be an uncomfortable experience.

Change equals growth.

No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

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