Quotes About Transformation

This stone on which the lizard lies was under the sea when lizards first came into being, and now the flood is wearing it away, to return it once again into the oceans.

It is difficult to adjust because I do not know who is adjusting; I am no longer that old person and not yet the new.

then lung-gom may be simplistically regarded as a manifestation of mind over matter, of matter returning to energy

A true experience of prajna corresponds to "enlightenment" or liberation—not change, but transformation—a profound vision of his identity with universal life, past, present, and future, that keeps man from doing harm to others and sets him free from fear of birth-and-death. In

Don't accept the limitations of other people who claim things are 'unchangeable'. If it's written in stone, bring your hammer and chisel.

The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.

Is this, Miriam wonders, what they call the march of history? And even if she doesn't fully understand, it doesn't mean she can't appreciate the need, the periodic need for some people to resort to gasoline, rags, and matches. Doesn't it always come to this? Isn't history as much about tearing things down as it is about building things up?

lost a bit at a time, over the years; it didn't just happen overnight. But there were intense experiences, epiphanies of a kind, that brought about quantum leaps.

But the moment we experience the ground beneath our feet dissolving and feel the loss of all certainties is the moment we touch upon the experience of the Cross.

This book is about a salvation that takes place within our unknowing and dissatisfaction

He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed: he was his own baby...He was a great fat chuckling baby, and he shat and peed in his filthy trousers and kept driving.

it didn't have a real ending. It just slipped backward when other things happened.

Home. But this isn't home. May it become so.

Shapeshifting in folklore is clearly connected with hallucination in morbid psychology.

What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what when contemplated transforms us utterly.

One of the ancient functions of pilgrimage is to wake us from our slumber.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but . . . life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

Heider, whose book is based on Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, suggests that leaders practice becoming more open. "The wise leader is of service: receptive, yielding, following. The group member's vibration dominates and leads, while the leader follows. But soon it is the member's consciousness which is transformed, the member's vibration which is resolved.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge. TULI KUPFERBERG

if you continue to do what you've always done, you will continue to have what you've always had.

If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.

Emigrate or Degenerate.

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?