Quotes About Transformation

That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street, carried to the duke's house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

This surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.

Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

Over the inter glaciers, I see the summer glow, And, through the wild-piled snowdrift, The warm rosebuds below.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. The same particle does not rise from the valley to the ridge. Its unity is only phenomenal. The persons who make up a nation to-day, next year die, and their experience with them.

Build therefore your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.

There are books which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you and you are he; then is a teaching, and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.

A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Over the winter glaciers I see the summer glow, And through the wild-piled snow-drift The warm rosebuds below.

Changing our thoughts, Emerson asserts, can actually change our circumstances.

From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Our strength grows out of our weakness

you how to get it yourself, that's of great benefit.) Our lives are transformed when we come to ourselves—when we awaken to God in ourselves. This is the path that Jesus walked, and bid us to follow. This is the way of salvation.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.