Quotes About Transformation

There's ways to survive these times, Doubledick, and I think one way is the shape the telling takes

gold mould as if blisters of the body can become precious metals.

Cut this tree I'm living in down. Hollow its trunk out. Make me all over again, with what you scooped out of its insides. Slide the new me back inside the old trunk. Burn me. Burn the tree. Spread the ashes, for luck, where you want next year's crops to grow. Birth me all over again Burn me and the tree Next summer's sun Midwinter guarantee

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

All the other houses have been pulled out of the street like bad teeth.

In these days of the shattering of the old form and the building of the new, adaptability is needed. We must avert the danger of crystallisation through pliability and expansion. The "old order changeth," but primarily it is a change of dimension and of aspect, and not of material or of foundation.

Initiation, or the process of undergoing an expansion of consciousness, is part of the normal process of evolutionary development, viewed on a large scale, and not from the standpoint of the individual.

the little death. What would or could be left of a human being after such an experience?

Something had lubricated us. Something had washed us clean. I understood, and at the same minute I understood that that they all understood, too. Hate had passed away, and in its place was the other word that's just as big. ("Golden Baby")

The English are frosty When you're no kith or kin Of theirs, but how they alter When once they take you in! The kindest, the truest, The best friends ever known, It's hard to remember How they froze you to a bone.

Parenting is not about going back," she said. "Parenting is all about moving forward, and constant, unpredictable change.

Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.

Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

All loss is gain. Since I have become so near-sighted I see no dust nor squalor, and therefore conceive of myself as living in splendor.

I've lived a thousand lives just by reading a book

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into responsible individuals in the present, who are aware of our past and are thus able to live with it.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

Abolish these categories of pain (or is it love) Let it all be one pain Pain swallows itself, dies like a star.

And if you're referring to your anguish, it's just a thing. The shape of a trailor, a wheel, or a knife. Leave the details of your life and find another one.

I confess I meant to grow wings and lose my mind. I confess that I've forgotten what for.

You used to be alive, now you're almost mythic.

I want to go back to where I once lived, but it isn't there anymore; that one of me isn't here.

You entered this hall in your moonlit unconsciousness pleading for a different life.