Quotes About Transformation

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend

Ending is better than mending.

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's. There was also a thing called God.

And the present sheared asunder from the past, like an iceberg sheared off from its frozen parent cliffs, and went sailing out to sea in lonely pride. All the past ages had accomplished was as nothing.

The forms change, but the substance remains.

Five minutes later roots and fruits were abolished; the flower of the present rosily blossomed.

Do you know what it's like, he asked at length, to feel that nothing is quite real -- including yourself? Susila nodded. It sometimes happens when one's just on the point of discovering that everything, including oneself, is much more real than one ever imagined. It's like shifting gears: you have to go into neutral before you change into high.

All crosses had their tops cut and became T's.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob. "Till

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of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

Oh, forgive me! Oh, make me pure! Oh, help me to be good!

If you give experience a chance, if you're prepared to go along with it, the results are incomparably more therapeutic and transforming.

Revolcarse en el fango no es la mejor manera de limpiarse

I see her as a kind of Midas, turning everything she touched into imagination.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do though.

But the disciplining of the will must have as its accompaniment a no less thorough disciplining of the consciousness. There has to be a conversion, sudden or otherwise, not merely of the heart, but also of the senses and of the perceiving mind.

The energy which wanted to expend itself in physical passion is diverted and turns the mills of the soul.