Quotes About Transformation

A book can transform your life and add new dimensions to the way you think.

The phonographs of hades in the brainAre tunnels that re-wind themselves, and loveA burnt match skating in a urinal—

I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.

Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person—hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre—into an outstanding performer.

leaders who do undertake a voyage of personal understanding and development can transform not only their own capabilities but also those of their companies.

There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.

It seemed as though he would never pull free, until he awoke one morning feeling kind of awkward, as though his hands had been lopped off by some Arabian sword during a routine druggie blackout, and in their place, pale and membranous hands that had been fit to his wrists by aliens that took him up while he slept and then brought him back down – all of it in an effort to help him move up to where he belonged in society.

They say it's good but I didn't know what I was doing until I got into the suit and they put the moustache on me, and somehow, when I got all the drag on, it came out. It was the most amazing thing. I'm truly extraordinary.

and hurtful comments and replace them with respectful, safe interactions. You must move from self-care to caring for this Space Between.

envision to be our birthright. Stubbornly, we want what we need without having to change who we are, but that is impossible, for what we need is ourselves—our lost wholeness— which is attainable only through changing what we have become.

What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

All civilisation has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution.

Socially, politically, economically, militarily, culturally, racially, sexually, demographically, even mythologically, World War II was the crucible that forged modern America. It was the transforming event that reshaped all who lived through it, and continues to affect those born after it. Only the American Revolution that created the new nation and the Civil War that preserved the Union rank with it in importance.

Out of the shell of the broken heart emerges the newborn soul.

At each step from the inner being to the surface there is an apparent improvement, which appears to be more positive; yet every step towards the surface entails limitation and dependence.

evolved. This evolution only means that the soul has adopted a more finished instrument in order to experience life more fully.

The human heart must first be melted, like metal, before it can be molded into a desirable character. The mystic does not wait until the hereafter, but

Meditation bedeutet, tief in uns hinabzutauchen und hoch in höhere Sphären aufzusteigen und weiter zu werden als das Universum. In diesen Erfahrungen erleben wir die Seligkeit der Meditation. Wir sollten jeden Tag unseres Lebens in eine Meditation verwandeln. (S. 163)

Life is a continual series of experiences, one leading to the other, until the soul arrives at its destination.

Your new path is not always going to be easy or even fun, but we must have a renewing of our minds, hearts,

Group membership never disappears, but an organism will try to pass as something it's not, if enough of its traits transform. We are nucleate, heterotrophic, vertebral, brainy, bony fish. We are fish.

We are being solidified by modernity into states that, in prior eras, would have been more ephemeral.

novel levels of novelty, such as we are experiencing now, are a special danger. This means that what's needed today—and urgently—is a call to consciousness on a scale that we have not seen before.

modernity is doing something to us at a deeply fundamental level, and the fact that we don't understand it is alarming.