Quotes About Transformation

Homens como nós mudam de ser moral todos os seis meses. Quantas almas te tens tu já conhecido? E eu também, quantas?

Turn each and every dark tear into a pearl of wisdom, and find the blessing in every curse.

The old self, in other words, is what we are by nature: slaves to sin. However, Paul says to the believers at Colossae, since you have become one with Christ you are no longer slaves to sin, for you have taken off the old man or old self that was enslaved to sin and have put on the new self

ten centuries ago people would have snorted just like that at the idea of a black as Head on this planet. Such narrow stupidity seems fantastic to us now. Our own prejudices will seem just as comical to our great-great-grandchildren.

In my mind ran the immortal line of James Thurber, that phrase at once so intensely comic and so pregnant with suggestions of unnameable terror: "Now we go up to the garrick and become warbs." We were going up to the garrick all right, and warbs suddenly seemed the least terrifying of the things we might become.

But a werewolf is a man that chages into a wolf. I've never done that. Honest I haven't." "A mammal," Said Ozymandias, "is an animal that bears its young and suckles them. A virgin is nonetheless a mammal. Because you have never changed doesn't make you less of a werewolf." "But a werewolf-" Suddenly Wolfe's eyes lit up. "A werewolf is better than a G-man!

The key to success is often the ability to adapt.

You see, love isn't just something you feel. Love is something you become. It's like - going to a new country, and realizing that you never particularly liked the place you left behind. It's like a sort of tingling and - oh, I don't know - when she smiles I just want to start clapping or something.

Put this program into action, a thousand times: (a) identify the negative feelings in you; (b) understand that they are in you, not in the world, not in external reality; (c) do not see them as an essential part of "I"; these things come and go; (d) understand that when you change, everything changes.

Most people end up being conformists; they adapt to prison life. A few become reformers; they fight for better lighting, better ventilation. Hardly anyone becomes a rebel, a revolutionary who breaks down the prison walls. You can only be a revolutionary when you see the prison walls in the first place.

When you're on the verge of going insane, raving mad, you're about to become either a psychotic or a mystic.

Repentance brings an intense desire for God, deep gratitude, and a growth in self-awareness that increases our freedom to love.

Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed: after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed." But there's a difference: I don't identify with it anymore.

I don't identify with the feeling. "I" is not that feeling. "I" am not lonely, "I" am not depressed, "I" am not disappointed. Disappointment is there, one watches it. You'd be amazed how quickly it glides away. Anything you're aware of keeps changing; clouds keep moving. As you do this, you also get all kinds of insights into why clouds were coming in the first place.

Let the story do its work in you, and when it is done then you won't need the story anymore.

That's what spirituality is all about, you know: unlearning. Unlearning all the rubbish they taught you.

That is how you bring about change in yourself. Not by condemnation, not by calling yourself names, but by understanding what's going on. Not by calling yourself a dirty old sinner.

To come to the land of love, you must pass through the pains of death, for to love persons means to die to the need for persons and to be utterly alone.

but God would be much happier, according to Jesus Christ, if you were transformed than if you worshipped. He would be much more pleased by your loving than by your adoration.

God is going to be much more pleased by your being transformed into a loving person than by saying, "Lord, Lord.

Thus, any change you achieve is inevitably accompanied by inner conflict.

Nhi?u khi Ä'i?u t?t nh?t có th? x?y ra cho chúng ta - Ä'ó là nh? ho?n n?n b?t th?n ?p tá»›i, chúng ta ???c t?nh ngá»™ trÆ°á»›c thá»±c t?i, t? Ä'ó chúng ta bÆ°á»›c vào ??c tin.

??ng bi?t chân lý, nhÆ°ng hãy c?m n?m chân lý. Khi b?n c?m n?m ???c chân lý, b?n s? thay ??i. Còn n?u b?n ch? bi?t nó b?ng cái ??u c?a b?n, b?n không thay ??i.

Before enlightenment I used to be depressed. After enlightenment I continue to be depressed.