Quotes About Transformation

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

El de entonces soy yo todavía, o si no soy él soy su prolongación, o su sombra, o su heredero, o su usurpador. No hay ningún otro que se le parezca tanto.

causa perplejidad y desconsuelo que las cosas cambien tanto sin que uno cambie respecto a ellas ('No

todo viaja hacia su difuminación lentamente nada más ocurrir y hasta mientras acontece

Cada vez que das un paso adelante, estás destinado a perturbar algo. Agitas el aire mientras avanzas, levantas polvo, alteras el suelo. Vas atropellando cosas. Cuando una sociedad entera avanza, ese atropello se hace en una escala mucho mayor; y cada cosa que trastornes, los intereses creados que quieras suprimir, todo se convierte en un obstáculo. MAHATMA GANDHI

Al principio eran ninfas de blancos brazos y turgentes pechos que seducían a los hombres; pero luego, cuando cundió la voz y los jóvenes ya no eran tan incautos de dejarse dominar por la lujuria, las náyades se mostraban en su verdadera forma, y de las aguas surgían largos brazos cubiertos de escamas verdes que arrastraban a sus presas a las honduras de los ríos y los estanques para ahogarlos.

Cuando se le agotaba el fuego, ingería de nuevo la lava que había vomitado o devoraba las armas de los enemigos caídos y las fundía en el crisol que tenía por estómago.

En todo largo periplo hay un momento en que percibes que el viaje ha comenzado de veras, y no suele suceder al principio, sino cuando sientes que tu alma ha escapado definitivamente a la rutina, que ha huido de los hábitos de la vida cotidiana, de tu patria, en suma.

We have all become wayfarers and travellers marching on and on ....Yet,for those who can adapt themselves to this continuous journeying,there is no regret and they would not have it otherwise.A reture to the dull uneventful past is unthinkable.

So when you experience a so-called failure, don't view this as failure, but rather as a "character muscle-building" process. It's a process that will strengthen your resolve to transform your career much the same way a caterpillar transforms itself into an elegant butterfly. The job campaign necessitates that you embrace struggle and constructively address adversity. When you do so, new opportunities will present themselves sooner than you'd think possible.

Basic to the New Testament concept of motivation is the task of becoming what you are. In a real sense we are not merely human beings, but also human becomings. The Christian life is not static; it is a life of change.

Similarly, the Scriptures urge the believer to be what God has declared him to be in Christ.

For three weeks I was in a state of slippage, a gap widening between me and my usual self.

Something changed. Somewhere along the line you stopped accelerating.

There's no path to liberation that doesn't pass through the shadow.

Religion is for people afraid of going to hell, Spirituality is for people who have been there.

Jay R. Galbraith

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

If all stories are fiction, fiction can be true -- not in detail or fact, but in some transformed version of feeling. If there is a memory of paradise, paradise can exist, in some other place or country dimensionally reminiscent of our own. The sad stories live there too, but in that country, we know what they mean and why they happened. We make our way back from them, finding the way through a bountiful wilderness we begin to understand. Years are nothing: Story conquers all distance.

Our everyday reality is a grand illusion which we are creating. By exploring and changing our inner world, we begin to transform our outer world. If we are willing to embark on an inner journey, we can discover all of the beliefs, expectations, and hidden agendas through which we create our own lives, and collectively, we can begin to shape the future in ways that honor the sacredness of all life.

We are all being called to help usher in a new way of being for humanity. We are called not only for ourselves but to inspire these changes in others.

When the rosebud is still forming a little green ball, do you berate it for not being in full bloom? Hell, no!

Language change is not a disease, any more than adolescence, or autumn are illnesses.