Quotes About Transformation

If you can touch your shadow—within form—and do something out of your ordinary pattern, a great deal of energy will flow from it.

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.

A buddha is the butterfly that finally emerges from the cocoon of the human life-form. (p. 63)

If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

There are no beautiful houses in England now. Only ruins, mental homes, and Government offices.

The sad thing is that, even though we know our lives aren't working in certain areas, we are still afraid to change. We are locked into our comfort zone, no matter how self-destructive it may be. Yet, the only way to get out of our comfort zone and to be free of our problems and limitations is to get uncomfortable.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

I weighed 193 pounds and had three chins. I couldn't get up before 9 a.m. and never saw patients before 10. I decided to go on a diet.

revolutionaries are more likely to be those who have been given at least some taste of a better life.

Awakening goes beyond coaching, teaching, mentoring and sponsorship to include the level of vision, mission and spirit.

You've got to want to change, know how to change, and give yourself the chance to change.1

desacralizing

The paradox of worship is this: we perform these acts of worship, but they are not actually for us. We do these things for God, and then we are the ones who are changed.

why do we personify time? Is it because we're afraid to admit that our lives are measured by an abstract force that neither knows nor cares about our entry into existence? Or our departure into death? Time is our mysterious master giving it a face and hands we attempt to transform it into our servant.

The law of change says, "Things do not stay the same. If they don't get better, they get worse." If relationships do not get stronger, they will get weaker; if they do not become closer, they will become more distant; if they do not become more productive, they will become less productive.

Love is the greatest touch-up artist of all.

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.

Life is a process by which a few desperate longings morph into a thousand meaningless wants.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.