Quotes About Transformation

But we must not think that just because we have words for all the parts of a tree, a tree really has all those parts. The leaf does not know, for instance, when it stops being a leaf and becomes a twig. And the trunk is not aware that it has stopped being a trunk and has become the roots. Indeed, the roots do not know when they stop being roots and become soil, nor the soil the moisture, nor the moisture the atmosphere, nor the atmosphere the sunlight." (pp 54-55)

As tecnologias digitais criam o ambiente propício para uma nova forma de bricolagem, ou "colagem livre", como Brown chama-a. Muitos podem adicionar ou transformar as criações de outros.

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

Freedom is about stopping the past.

But for ten minutes I'd been transported somewhere else. Andy's room. A world where toys lived. Had feelings. Had problems. I had no idea who was behind it all, but somewhere in this building there were magicians at work.

Sarah smiled, one of those little childish smiles she was so good at. It very nearly broke the Doctor's heart. 'You know what I think? I think you don't really regenerate at all. I think you just keep taking off masks.

Phil never settled on a name for the new, dual consciousness within him. His most frequently used term was "homoplasmate" - a bonding of a human and an information-rich "plasmate" life form. He further felt that this new wisdom or grace had been "programmed" in him by age four, and that it would save him.

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Faire une architecture c'est faire une créature. Etre rempli se remplir s'être rempli éclater exulter froid de glace au sein des complexités devenir un jeune chien content. Devenir l'ordre. ...

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

Revolution is our obligation: our hope of evolution.

I don't know how time moves or which of our sorrows or our desires it is able to wash away.

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

Innovation," he wrote, "is rarely about a big idea; more usually it's about a series of small ideas brought together in a new and better way.

we necessarily have negative, distorted thinking about ourselves and others. We do not ignore or deny it, but we write it out as specifically as we can, just as we do with our sins, and say to God, "Look at this. I don't want this. You take it!" We name it as the distorted thinking that it is. Then we replace it with right thinking—those light-filled thoughts and attitudes in line with truth and the way things really are.

When one lives in the midst of a lie long enough, it becomes a part of you whether you want to rationally accept it or not.

Als liefde of de Geest van God een mens raakt, wordt hij getransformeerd, hij klemt zichzelf niet langer vast aan zijn afzonderlijke individualiteit

In the Eleusinian mysteries, they would always warn people, "if you go in here, your ego will die. You're going to have to confront all your past hang-ups, strip them off, and be a changed person." One emperor of Rom who wanted to be initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries said, "That's interesting, I approve of what you're doing, but I don't want to be changed."

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

And as we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our souls There walks a lady we all know Who shines white light and wants to show How everything still turns to gold And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last Where all are one and one is all To be a rock and not to roll.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.