Quotes About Transformation

True maturation on the spiritual path requires that we discover the depth of our wounds. As Achaan Chah put it, "If you haven't cried a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun." A

everything is intertwined in a continuous movement, arising in certain forms that we call bodies or thoughts or feelings, and then dissolving or changing into new forms.

It is not enough to touch awakening. We must find ways to live its vision fully.

As we step out of the way new things are born.

Spiritual life may initially be focused on self-transformation, but as mindfulness and compassion grow we naturally become attentive to the values of the society around us. When we do so, we can see how the popular promise of happiness through greed and excess consumerism is increasingly shallow and false.

If there is one thing you must understand about the future, it is that not only is the world changing; the rate of change is increasing at an exponential pace.

Emerging technologies may not revolutionize the business world tomorrow, but they will transform it sooner than many people expect. Therefore, anticipate cheapness.

When exactly the virus got on an airplane and departed Wuhan isn't exactly known, but the world changed that day. It underwent a "phase change.

Others include "The Vowel" rule: How do we need to Adapt? How is our world Evolving? How can we Innovate? Can we Organize differently? What do we need to Unlearn? WhY do we do things the way we do them?

If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.

what it is formed into.

Her long body stiffened against him. Her cool fingers tightened in his shaggy fur, and her bare, clinging heels dug deep into his heaving flanks. She was sweet against him, and the clear logic of this new life conquered the dreary conventions of that old, dim existence where he had walked in bitter death.

Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.

If there is one 'constant' in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.

Time feels as if it is on the other side of me now, way over, out across the sea, like another country. I don't live inside it any more and it doesn't rule me.

More than anything else, more than your body, or the food you eat, you are your teeth. Life is a journey from milk teeth to false teeth with fillings and crowns thrown in in between for relief.

To be filled by the Spirit you must be empty of yourself and full of God.

And oil's not supposed to mix with water. But then someone invented mayonnaise, and wham - instant mixing.

She who could speak in leaves and knew the language of birds, the history of the world, knew that it was time for a change.

Did she know, this woman who found rest on the peace of wild things, how the swan, who offered her body as soft pillow, had once been a maiden, caught in a rainstorm, crouched by the water in shelter of bushes, mistaken by her lover out hunting in twilight, who, seeing only her white petticoat thought her a swan and shot? Did she understand how, rather than falling, her wild soul had risen into evening light and flight in the form of a wild swan?

If you want to see revival, plant your church in the gutter.

I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

People went around warning you: Never imagine you can change someone, for people NEVER CHANGE. Then they talked about leopards and spots. Forgetting altogether about chameleons. Or that octopus, which lives on the ocean floor and can change its shape to become a stingray, a sea anemone, or even an eel

and if we can change things that have already happened if those planes can fly in uneasy formation if that splinter moon can blow away the shadows then anything, anything at all.