Quotes About Transformation

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.

The cosmic humor is that if you desire to move mountains and you continue to purify yourself, ultimately you will arrive at the place where you are able to move mountains. But in order to arrive at this position of power you will have had to give up being he-who-wanted-to-move-mountains so that you can be he-who-put-the-mountain-there-in-the-first-place. The humor is that finally when you have the power to move the mountain, you are the person who placed it there--so there the mountain stays.

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.

Death has such great importance in this society that it affects everything. I learned from my guru that death is not the enemy, I see it as another moment. Yet it's the end of an incarnation and means going on to other incarnations.

It's very hard to grow because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

True love is unconquer able and irresistable; and it goes on gathering power and spreading itself, until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches. Meher Baba

Maharajji would quote Kabir: "It is easy to dye your cloth, but it is hard to dye your heart.

Part of the process of awakening is recognizing that the realities we thought were absolute are only relative. All you have to do is shift from one reality to another once, and your attachment to what you thought was real starts to collapse. Once the seed of awakening sprouts in you, there's no choice—there's no turning back.

The art of spiritual growth has to do with how quickly you recognize attachments and how quickly you can release them.

True love is unconquerable and irresistible," he said, "and it goes on gathering power and spreading itself, until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches.

We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into the world of spirit."—Bhagavad Gita

In all spiritual practice, the strategy is the same: to identify the thing that frightens you and come as close to it as you can before you freak out.

Who you think you are will always be frightened of change. But it doesn't make any difference to who you truly are.

Rumi, the Persian mystic: "I died as stone, and rose again as plant. I died as plant, and became an animal. I died as animal, and was born a man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more shall I die as man, to soar with the angels. But even from angelhood, I must pass on. For all is change, except the face of God.

The caterpillar does not become a flying caterpillar; it morphs into a butterfly.

What is now in the past was once in the future

You gave us a lawyer; we gave you back a Mahatma.

Until a bhakta has not abandoned himself and his life to you, so that he is yours and you his, the passions of his heart are his enemies, his home is a prison, and all his attachments are bondage. Once the surrender is effected, and all these old enemies turned over to you, they transform themselves into the most potent gifts for the life of devotion. When the Lord becomes one's own! With such bhakti, a man becomes a natural Sannyasi.

Siva laughed, and said, 'Let any man who enters this forest be turned into a woman

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

Our minds are so much set on Earth that we are unaccustomed to heavenly thinking. So we must work at it.

The kingdom of God . . . does not mean merely the salvation of certain individuals nor even the salvation of a chosen group of people. It means nothing less than the complete renewal of the entire cosmos, culminating in the new heaven and the new earth. Anthony Hoekema