Quotes About Transformation

that the death of earth, is water, and the death of water, is air; and the death of air, is fire; and so on the contrary.

But among the things readiest to thy hand to which thou shalt turn, let there be these, which are two. One is that things do not touch the soul, for they are external and remain immovable; but our perturbations come only from the opinion which is within. The other is that all these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed. The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Think of the countless changes in which you yourself have bad a part. The whole universe is change, and life is but what you deem it.

The other is that all these things, which thou seest, change immediately and will no longer be; and constantly bear in mind how many of these changes thou hast already witnessed. The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same;

The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

There is nothing bad in undergoing change—or good in emerging from it.

What stands in the way becomes the way

both thou thyself shalt become a new man, and thou shalt begin a new life.

Heraclitus never be out of thy mind, that the death of earth, is water, and the death of water, is air; and the death of air, is fire; and so on the contrary. Remember him also who

with all meekness and a calm cheerfulness, to expect death, as being nothing else but the resolution of those elements, of which every creature is composed. And if the elements themselves suffer nothing by this their perpetual conversion of one into another, that dissolution, and alteration, which is so common unto all, why should it be feared by any?

Ia yang takut akan kematian, merasa takut mengalami kehilangan sensasi atau jenis sensasi lain yang berbeda. Namun, jika kau tidak lagi mengalami sensasi, maka kau tidak akan merasa sakit. Dan jika kau ingin mendapatkan sensasi yang berbeda maka kau akan menjadi makhluk yang berbeda dan kau tidak akan berhenti hidup.

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it

The nature of the universe delights in nothing more, than in altering those things that are, and in making others like unto them. So that we may say, that whatsoever it is, is but as it were the seed of that which shall be.

For by these the mind doth turn and convert any impediment whatsoever, to be her aim and purpose. So that what before was the impediment, is now the principal object of her working; and that which before was in her way, is now her readiest way.

Change is the universal experience. Thou art thyself undergoing a perpetual transformation and, in some sort, decay: aye and the whole Universe as well.

Thou canst begin a new life! See but things afresh as thou usedst to see them; for in this consists the new life.

Is any many so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being?

Everything's destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.

Para que guarde la muerte en actitud placida, no viendo en ella otra cosa que la disolución de los elementos de que consta todo ser viviente. Si no hay nada temible para los mismos elementos en esta transformación incesante de uno en otro ¿por que temer a la transformación y disolución de todas las cosas? Esto es conforme a la naturaleza y nada es malo en cuanto a ella se acomoda

In a moment the earth will cover us all. Then the earth too will change, and then further successive changes to infinity. One reflecting on these waves of change and transformation, and the speed of their flow, will hold all mortal things in contempt.

Contempla il corso degli astri52 immaginando di ruotare con loro e pensa come gli elementi si trasformano continuamente gli uni negli altri. Il pensiero di queste cose, infatti, purifica dalle brutture della vita terrena.

the seasons of life