Quotes About Transformation

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.

Sometimes people need to experience great loss to really be driven deeper.

The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.

That's the magic of moviemaking. You clearly identify one scenario with the other, and it's a completely different experience.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience... It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

Let weakness learn meekness.

I don't believe anyone can go through the prison experience without being changed by it. The experience becomes part of your identity forever.

I was forever changed by my experience on "Once and Again." All of us who were on that show have deep connections... familial connections.

The experience of giving birth itself made me feel more womanly.

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly.

When your ideas about yourself change, so does your experience.

Directing was a transformative experience for me, one that I really enjoyed.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.

I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.

For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.