Quotes About Transformation

Sufism is that which succeeds in bringing to man the High Knowledge.

La vela quemó a la polilla: Pero pronto desaparecerá en su propia grasa.

Ten la naturaleza de un derviche; entonces usa con un gorro elegante.

No ripe grape becomes unripe again, and human evolution cannot be stopped.

La uva madura no puede volver a la inmadurez, y la evolución humana no puede detenerse.

Sufism is something which happens to a person, not something which is given to him.

El Sufismo es algo que le ocurre a una persona, y no algo que se le da.

Quien se convierta a sí mismo en salvado será comido por vacas.

Sufi is the name for the Realised Human Being.

You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.

la experiencia de conversión, de cualquier clase que ella sea, tiene como común denominador un derrumbamiento total del ego.

Up to his twenty-sixth year the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life, and he seemed led by a strong and empty desire of gaining for himself a great name.

Next it dawned on him that the former ideas were of the world, the latter God-sent; finally, worldly thoughts began to lose their hold, while heavenly ones grew clearer and dearer.

En los que proceden de bien en mejor, el buen ángel toca a la tal ánima dulce, leve y suavemente, como gota de agua que entra en una esponja; y el malo toca agudamente y con sonido y inquietud, como cuando la gota de agua cae sobre la piedra. Y a los que proceden de mal en peor tocan los sobredichos espíritus contrario modo.

A thick and shapeless trunk would never believe that it could become a statue, admired as a miracle of sculpture, and would never consent to submit itself to the chisel of the sculptor who sees by his genius what he can make of it.

Nothing vague, idle, or purely speculative, is to occupy man in the retreat. He comes to learn to conquer himself; to free himself from evil passions; to reform the disorder, great or little, of his past life, and to regulate it for the future by a plan conformable to the Divine will.

I've burnt all the holy pages I used to carry but poems flare in my heart

I was like an old leafless tree until we met green buds burst and blossom now that I have you I'll never forget what I owe you

all the bad things I do will go up in smoke and so will I

one of you saved my satori paper I know it piece by piece you pasted it back together now watch me burn it once and for all

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.

In the darkness, even love will become hate

Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.