Quotes About Transformation

Remember, what we are trying to do in this life is to shatter time and bring back the dead. Rise, Virginia. Rise and see the whole world." Virginia

but, as we know, even when the silver wears away and you're left with copper, if you attend to it every day it has a gleam all its own.

Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.

Thinking the way you've always thought and doing things you've always done will only lead to more of the same. You need to be disruptive!

Is an ending really another beginning?

At about this time the Asiatic wolf, a fierce predator that despite its small size would eat a human if it had the opportunity, came under human control because its friendly young cubs could be fed and trained. A dangerous adversary was turned into a dedicated helper—the dog.

Gerrit Gerritszoon, who renamed himself Desiderius Erasmus.

You've got nothing to be sorry about Danesh. You're a product of circumstances and circumstances change. Let's create a version of you that doesn't feel so lost.-Edison Prodigy Vol. 1 The Evil Earth

When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. —OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

The courage to hear and embody opens us to a startling secret, that the best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle.

To journey without being changed is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journey is to be a pilgrim.

The truth is that life will break us and burn us at some point on the journey. This is not pessimistic or cynical but descriptive of the geography of being alive. It is part of how we are transformed by the journey. Yet when we're broken or burned by events, we feel betrayed by God. When we're broken or burned by people, we feel betrayed by other souls.

Perhaps one of the hardest remedies to accept for our pain of becoming is that wherever we are in our path—no matter how flawed or incomplete—is a blossoming unto itself.

Yet beneath all the talk of tragedy and grace, I have come to believe that we are destined to be opened by the living of our days, and whether we like it or not, whether we choose to participate or not, we will, in time, every one of us, wear the deeper part of who we are as a new skin.

For only when we can outwait the dark will the sharpness of experience recede like a tide to reveal what has survived beneath it all. Often what seems tragic, if looked at long enough, reveals itself as part of a larger transformation.

And then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk to bloom. —ANAÏS NIN

The wildflower's reward for trusting what it senses but doesn't yet know is to become what is was born to be—a flower whose inevitable place is realized in a small moment of Oneness, as it joins with elements that were here before it came alive and which will live on once it dies.

Whatever our path, whatever the color or grain of our days, whatever riddles we must solve to stay alive, the secret of life somehow always has to do with the awakening and freeing of what has been asleep.

COMING OUT While there is much to do we are not here to do.   Under the want to problem-solve is the need to being-solve.   Often, with full being the problem goes away.   The seed being-solves its darkness by blossoming.   The heart being-solves its loneliness by loving whatever it meets.   The tea being-solves the water by becoming tea.

So long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth. —GOETHE

dialogue with this feeling and ask why it will not go; just what does it need in order to leave?

life becomes a living of who we are until that form of self can no longer hold us, and, like Taaora in his shell, we must break the forms that contain us in order to birth our way into the next self. This is how we shed our many ways of seeing the world, not that any are false, but that each serves its purpose for a time until we grow and they no longer serve us.

E]ven through our limitations, we evolve rather than fail, the way a caterpillar becomes a chrysalis becomes a butterfly, and the succession of life's trials is precisely the unfolding we need to find our bliss and rightful place in the order of things.