Quotes About Transformation

I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.

In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.

This book extends some original implications of mindfulness. It explores the many positive, helpful subconscious aspects of remindfulness. It suggests ways that long-term meditative retraining can help cultivate hidden, affirmative resources of our subconscious memories. Accessing these subtle processes of transformation can enable us to adapt more effectively and to live more authentic lives. To

The acceptance of the gift of freedom transforms our perception of our social and political existence.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

Anytime you're gonna grow, you're gonna lose something. You're losing what you're hanging onto to keep safe. You're losing habits that you're comfortable with, you're losing familiarity.

What door is opened into soul through our wounds.

This is the emancipation of the nigredo from literalism. Like cures like; we cure the nigredo by becoming, as the texts say, blacker than black – archetypally black, and thereby no longer colored by all-too-human prejudices of color.

You can take the vampire out of the rabbit but you can't take the rabbit out of the vampire.

We can learn to use the fire of our minds to good purpose.

All of us need to leave things behind in order to follow God. For some of us, it is addictive patterns of behavior, for others an overweening emphasis on our own success, for others the adulation of the crowd. It helps sometimes to look not just at what we're leaving behind and what God promises us, but also at what God has shown us already. Just look at all those fish.

A reformer is a guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.

A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

No son las especies más fuertes ni las más inteligentes las que sobreviven, sino las que saben dar una respuesta mejor al cambio. CHARLES DARWIN

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence,' wrote Tom Peters in Thriving on Chaos, 'only in constant improvement and constant change.

I want out of the freak show and into the main tent.

As Michael pondered how shallow he had been, he was struck by another thought. It wasn't simply that he hadn't gone deep enough. It was rather that he had grown accustomed to wading in pools that had no depth to begin with. A turn toward holiness would be a turn toward a different life altogether - to a life where different things mattered than had mattered in the past. Did he desire such a life? He knew that of all the questions, this was the most important.

As the blood flowed back to his brain, he turned back into the rather formal young man I had worked so hard to corrupt.

I may have entered that room a timid virgin, but by the time I left it I was a fully committed, cock-hungry slut. From my first taste of Mick's cock, with its mixture of sweat and piss and precum, I was hooked.

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

Just tell me this: when did a shipload of criminals, desperadoes, and fugitives become such a bunch of do-gooders?" Inara had the answer. "When their captain showed them how.

The most useless are those who never change through the years.