Quotes About Transformation

What interests me is the opportunity for all of us to become something different from what we are, by constructing spaces that contribute something to the experience of who we are.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.

An experience that changes nothing is hardly worth having.

Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.

When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

I've learned that ayahuasca works in levels, a little like peeling an onion. It is complex and something you really have to experience to understand.

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change.

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

True initiation is a response to an inner calling; it requires that you face personal challenges heroically and experience a genuine rebirth into a new way of being.

I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

In order to experience real magic it is necessary to make a dramatic shift from outcome to purpose.