Quotes About Transformation

Nines must resist the urge to escape into "premature Buddhahood"... and away from the mundane world. They must remember that "the only way out is through.

I was twenty years old at the time. Three years earlier I had experienced for the first time the new life, the love, the joy of knowing Jesus Christ in a personal way. A crisis came, I called upon Him, and suddenly He was there, alive! In fact, two thousand years had not aged Him a bit! I found He still had the same power to transform men's lives and hold their loyalty that He had manifested in the Gospels two millenniums before.

Se fosse davvero oro, tutto questo finirebbe! Sarei più ricco, ma non sarei mai più lo stesso! L'aria fresca avrà un profumo migliore? I giorni di Sole saranno più luminosi? Le notte stellate nasconderanno altri segreti? O perderò tutto questo? Ma io davvero voglio essere... ricco? (Capitolo VIII)

Most people create their first Selves to deal with a bad situation, the death of a parent, the loss of a home, or the loss of their first boyfriend or girlfriend. These Selves aren't usually very well made, but they are the forces that awaken us to the need to create ourselves out of the materials of our life.

In his mind's eye, though, he sees— —Taliban moving like scorpions across a similar landscape his own caravan blown to shit blood streaming from buddies Now I'm one of them He sights in again. No time for Lack of PTSD He only hopes that Gentle Ben Increase-the-Peace Ben is one of them, too, now. Now, Ben. Find your inner Taliban.

Mexico is a country where the temples of the new gods are built on the gravesites of the old.

Evil is nothing more than that, which was once divine, and has fallen into shit." Indrid Night - Through A Glass Darkly.

We are the warden who possesses the key to the prison cell of anger and pain, so we can walk out into the sunlight again.

Like a lot of painters in this century, you seem to enjoy lifting things out of the world, in this case words or phrases, and then... And then, sung to and Simonized, theyre thrown into the mesh.

I majored in Creative Writing in college. Then I got over it.

Arthur Schopenhauer once said, "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Or, maybe it would be better to slam seven or eight elevated superhighways across the island, knocking down everything in the way, like Robert Moses wanted.

You wanna know what's happening to New York?" he asked. "I tell you what you do. You go to a used-magazine store, you look at the covers of science fiction magazines from the thirties. That's what's happening to New York.

A spirituality that can contribute to the renewal of the church will be solidly trinitarian, as opposed to a mystical monism in which diversity in God is sacrificed to simplicity. It will also be historically oriented-rooted in concrete human history and directed to the transformation of history into eternity.

When I was young, my language wore coats and shirts and trousers, neckties, bespoke shoes. In my lifetime as a writer I have cast off layer after layer of clothing in pursuit of nudity.

So in his maturity—he was no longer young, but had lived a full circuit of the earth around the sun—he had dropped his Crustian name and chosen to call himself Gregor Samsa Ingledew, the full meaning of which was known, or appreciated, only by himself.

To change undesirable behaviors we see in the world, we must change the thinking that leads to those behaviors.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.

Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.

All magic is about transformation... the performance magician is telling you that you are the magician in your own life. You are the agent of transformation, your own transformation.