Quotes About Transformation

But in the inner life, there is only one kind of revolution and it is a silent one. It is about moving from unwillingness to willingness.

spirituality means putting your life on fast forward. You may suffer much more because everything happens at a fast pace. What you would have stretched for ten years happens, let us say, in one month. So the intensity of the suffering that you go through is extremely acute. There may be moments of ecstasy and joy, but there is so much suffering also happening rapidly within you.

You cannot transform the world without transforming the individual.

It is time to reclaim for ourselves the extraordinary transformative power of this single word: responsibility. Apply it to your life, and watch the magic unfold.

If you have no tantra in you, you have no technology to transform people; all you have are words. Words can be inspirational and directional, but not transformative.

With a little awareness, every human being can begin to transform habit into choice, compulsion into consciousness.

It is time to stop the charade. There is only one way out of the spider's web. And it is the age-old journey from unawareness to awareness, from compulsion to consciousness.

You may be carrying around a sackful of stinking garbage. Either you can smear yourself with it and get terribly miserable, or you can make good manure out of it and create a wonderful garden.

If he is a genuine seeker, anything that happens to him – even the most disastrous thing – is also a plus, because it only annihilates him a little more.

It means beginning the journey from the psychological – maya – to the existential – Shi-va. And

I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

All praise is due to Allah that I went to Boston when I did. If I hadn't, I'd probably still be a brainwashed black Christian.

In the hectic pace of the world today, there is no time for meditation, or for deep thought. A prisoner has time that he can put to good use. I'd put prison second to college as the best place for a man to go if he needs to do some thinking. If he's motivated, in prison he can change his life.

Sometimes a fruit falls from a tree and rolls so far away from its roots that it's no longer of the tree. The hard fall, and long journey, bruises the fruit so much that it totally changes it. Its the same way for some of our people. This is why some cant be awakened regardless of how much truth you present to them. This journey has totally brainwashed them to such a degree that they're no longer of the original tree.

Since most New Yorkers had never heard of Lansing, I would name Detroit. Gradually, I began to be called "Detroit Red"—and it stuck.

I don't think anybody ever got more out of going to prison than I did.

I knew right there in prison that reading had forever changed the course of my life.

Se você enfia uma faca de 20cm em minhas costas e puxa 10cm para fora, isso não é progresso. Se você puxa-la inteira para fora, ainda não seria progresso. O progresso é curar a ferida que o golpe fez. Ainda nem começaram a remover a faca. Eles nem admitem que a faca está lá

I had sunk to the very bottom of the American white man's society when—soon now, in prison—I found Allah and the religion of Islam and it completely transformed my life.

Here was a man, who had come from the lower depths which they still inhabited, who had triumphed over his own criminality and his own ignorance to become a forceful leader and spokesman, an uncompromising champion of his people.

That morning was the start of a radical alteration in my whole outlook about "white" men.

Once he is motivated no one can change more completely than a person who has been at the bottom.

Cependant les années s'avançaient. Il fallait commencer à imiter les autres, leur ressembler.