Quotes About Transformation

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. He nests in an old woodpecker hole, or other small cavity, in a dead snag overhanging water. The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa. When you doubt the wisdom of this arrangement, take a look at the prothonotary.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Luther's revolution had, like all great revolutions, failed. But like all great revolutions, it had created a new world.

Señor, la jaula se ha vuelto pájaro.

Inútil explicar mis silencios. En el fondo de mí hay siempre una espera primitiva de un cambio mágico.

Es decir que anhelo un golpe de hacha que quiebre mis ramas actuales. Quedarme desnuda y esperar sonriente.

Cubre la memoria de tu cara con la máscara de la que serás y asusta a la niña que fuiste

Tendré tiempo para hacerme una máscara cuando emerja de la sombra?

He dado el salto de mí al alba. He dejado mi cuerpo junto a la luz y he cantado la tristeza de lo que nace

I only think of your body but I redo the body of my poem like someone who tries to cure her own wound.

Siete vestidos pueden ser toda una vida: el claro de la primera mañana, el de regar las hortensias, el de tirar piedras al río, el de aquella noche que se quemó el mantel de fiesta con un cigarrillo. Ahora, así apretados, ya no hay fiesta ni hortensias ni río. Sí, Genoveva, hacer un equipaje es como enterrar algo.

No cuentes el tiempo sino tus transformaciones

I realized once again that what I believed myself to be was an arbitrary deformation, a rational mask floating in the infinite unexplored internal shadows. Later, I understood that diseases do not actually sicken us; they sicken what we believe ourselves to be. Health is achieved by overcoming prohibitions, quitting paths that are not right for us, ceasing to pursue imposed ideals, and becoming ourselves: the impersonal consciousness that does not define itself.

The occultist G. I. Gurdjieff (1877–1949) demanded that a student, who was an inveterate smoker, quit smoking, and until he quit, Gurdjieff forbade any visit from him. The student fought for four years against the habit. When the student managed to overcome his habit, he very proudly presented himself in front of the teacher: "So! I quit smoking!" Gurdjieff responded, "Now, smoke!

para que el hombre se haga luz, la mujer deberá enterrar su lámpara en las tinieblas" Donde Mejor Canta un Pájaro

Although really society should not change, it should mutate. And, little by little, it is mutating... ... Society is like the body of a chicken: the chicken's foot is hard and insensitive while the eye is very alive. And there are beings who embody the cells of the eyes and others who embody the cells of the feet, of the wings, or of the anus.

I thought I was what I am, but in reality I'm still what I was. And that which I was, well, I don't know what it is. Perhaps some day I will know. Then I'll be what I shall be, but I'll stop being what I am now. And ceasing to be what I am now horrifies and terrifies me. Help me, please, you two!

Por primera vez descubrí la dulzura de ser yo mismo, sin estar deformado por el dolor o el miedo.

French Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin would never have become Gauguin if he had not followed this principle. He was a bank employee for a good part of his life, until the day he decided he was an artist. That day he left the bank and became a genius painter.

Il pigro - Sapendo di essere nato per dare origine ad una farfalla, mentre gli altri si rinchiudevano in laboriosi e oscuri bozzoli, il verme si mise a saltare il più in alto possibile, credendo che così facendo avrebbe fatto uscire le ali con più facilità

Leaping is as beautiful as crawling: don't compare yourself; develop your own values. Change your world or change worlds.

El agua sucia puede apagar un incendio

El árbol decidió viajar. Cuando logró desprenderse de la tierra, se dio cuenta de que sus ramas eran raíces celestes.