Quotes About Transformation

Back then the population was 83% white; today the exact opposite is true.

Education at a deep level means to 'lead out' what is trying to be born from within. The job of a true teacher is to help awaken the inner pupil that has its own way of being and unique way of perceiving the world.

At critical moments the veil between the little-self and the deep self thins and a meaningful self-adjustment becomes possible. If a person does not become paralyzed with fear or frozen in hatred, the wise self hidden within will rise to the occasion.

The wound in one person can become the door through which everyone can find the center of life again.

At critical junctures, outer trouble and the inner need to grow conspire to set each of us on a path of awakening and initiation.

The old idea is that when tragedy strikes or when an obstacle blocks us, there are only two possibilities. We either become a smaller person or we become a bigger person. If it's a real life change you cannot come out the same. So therefore, you're either going to come out smaller or you are going to rise up and ultimately come out of it a bigger person.

The purpose of conflict is to create.

Healing is a revolutionary act and we are here to awaken to the true nature of our own souls and the gifts we have to give to the world.

If we want the world to change, it has to start inside the human soul.

When seen with imagination, all things shift toward meaning, releasing energies that are hidden within appearances, releasing the inner wings of spirit, opening wide the doors to healing and wholeness.

What good is a path that doesn't carry us to the edge of our capacity and then beyond that place? A true calling involves a great exposure before it can become a genuine refuge.

Time is the enemy of identity

I've become so earthy. And I never was earthy. I'm doing all kinds of different roles which are not at all like the intellectual and the legal mind of Ben Stone.

When I got political that blew our marriage out of the water. I was not the same person and I admit that.

During his hajj, Malcolm [Malcolm X] fell into a new Islam with the same blind faith that he had given to Elijah. Since he lived just a year after his hajj, Mecca became the neatly presented and cinema-friendly conclusion to his lifelong thread of transformations: but he finally found the Truth and then Allah took him home. But if he lived longer, I think he would have called out the Arabs.

What is commonly called a dark night of the soul is really a dark night of the ego. Knowing this helps you to tap into the space within where healing is possible and miracles happen.

Reaching our soul is the first step on the ladder of finding our higher power.

Many people looking back on the effects of tragedy in their lives conclude that there was nothing else that would have been a strong enough motivation to change—that the most extreme suffering was needed to drive them toward their soul's mission.

I have been defeated, and in the defeat I have won myself. It is a pleasure to die at the hands of Life.

From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls.

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.