Quotes About Transformation

When you give more attention to the doing than to the future result that you want to achieve through it, you break the old egoic conditioning

The way of the cross is a complete reversal. It means that the worst thing in your life, your cross, turns into the best thing that ever happened to you, by forcing you into surrender, into "death," forcing you to become as nothing, to become as God — because God, too, is no-thing.

La mayoría de los seres humanos están todavía en las garras del modo egótico de conciencia: identificados con su mente y dominados por ella. Si no se liberan de su mente a tiempo, serán destruidos por ella.

Jesus's statement that "your whole body will be filled with light

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

If you cannot accept what is outside, then accept what is inside. If you cannot accept the external condition, accept the internal condition. This means: Do not resist the pain. Allow it to be there. Surrender to the grief, despair, fear, loneliness, or whatever form the suffering takes. Witness it without labeling it mentally. Embrace it. Then see how the miracle of surrender transmutes deep suffering into deep peace. This is your crucifixion. Let it become your resurrection and ascension.

Sanctification is more about the direction than the distance we have traveled.

El futuro imprevisible se está gestando hoy. Ojalá se traduzca en una regeneración de la política, una protección del planeta y una humanización de la sociedad: es hora de cambiar de Vía.

So glorious does love transfigure its object~Tarzan

There have been a few small

shouldn't they? She had given her maiden name

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

Venus herself graced their marriage with her presence, but what happened after that we do not know, except that Pygmalion named the maiden Galatea, and that their son, Paphos, gave his name to Venus' favorite city.

W]hat is ugly and evil is apt to change and grow milder with time.

A dead eagle he might have buried, but he had chosen rather to light a fire for a phoenix.

I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.

It is surprising how little narrow walls and a low ceiling matter, when the roof of the soul has suddenly been raised.

But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face...

As she stood there, in her long sealskin coat, her hands thrust in a small round muff, her veil drawn down like a transparent mask to the tip of her nose, and the bunch of violets he had brought her stirring with her quickly-taken breath, it seemed incredible that this pure harmony of line and colour should ever suffer the stupid law of change.

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented: even the stains of her grief became her as rain-drops do the beaten rose.