Quotes About Transformation

I saw a man clothed with rags… a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back.

My name is now Christian, but my name used to be Graceless.

To make a good death is to proceed gracefully into a better body and a better life. The consequences of a bad death are hard to look at. You will not make a good death is a power curse; it makes Fuck you sound like a benediction.

and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to yourself in a glimmer of rainfall or frost, the burnt smell of autumn, a meeting of parallel lines, and know you were someone else for the longest time, pretending you knew where you were, like a diffident tourist, lost on the one main square, and afraid to enquire.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

[W]hat a severe yet master artist old Winter is.... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.

How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

As students cross the threshold from outside to insider, they also cross the threshold from superficial learning motivated by grades to deep learning motivated by engagement with questions. Their transformation entails an awakening--even, perhaps, a falling in love.

You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

Hope is not a change method!

Joseph Campbell, the renowned scholar of religion and mythology, eloquently summed up, "This is it. This is Eden. When you see the kingdom spread upon the earth, the old way of living in the world is annihilated. That is the end of the world. The end of the world is not an event to come, it is an event of psychological transformation, of visionary transformation. You see not the world of solid things but a world of radiance.

Transforming the human experience of aging into spiritual enlightenment in the service of peace on Earth.

Son, different rules apply during the End of the World." I did not know what to say to that.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

Growing fast in sawdust

When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.

Christ is the most perfect image of God, into which we are so renewed as to bear the image of God, in knowledge, purity, righteousness, and true holiness.

if we have Jesus Christ with us, we shall come upon nothing so accursed that he will not turn it into a blessing; nothing

We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves.

we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves. For