Quotes About Transformation

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?

She thought the old April might be struggling to get through the creature she had become.

She had aged five years since Cirocco last saw her. She was a thin, hollow-eyed ghost with hands that shook constantly. She looked incomplete, as if half of her had been hacked away.

She grew into a quiet, beautiful young woman. The beauty was a nuisance, like smog and poverty.

Natura non facis Saltus.

QYou can not change the color of a room using the same color paint.

The funny thing about having any kind of moustache or beard is it grows on you—in two ways. I mean, it grows on you. It also becomes part of your identity. I've had it for 40 years. I don't think I would recognize the person in the mirror without it.

This is Chronos devouring his sons. The last maker of history swallows all previous history down. - The Adventures of the Day-Self in the Age of the Machines

Ya about the same time you grow a third set of teeth.

My name is John Wayne. When I was a kid I had ring worm. Hell, I was more worm than boy for a couple of years.

L'humain, comme l'épice, ne se révèle que broyé

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

We are not just humans learning to become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully human.

No outward practices will stand in the place of the new birth. Nothing under heaven will stand in its place.

all starts with renewing the mind, and you can't do that if you are abusing drugs and alcohol. We need to be present with the Holy Spirit.

A man may live like a fool for a year, and become wise in a day.

En su año cuarenta y tres de vida, William Stoner aprendió lo que otros, mucho más jóvenes, habían aprendido antes que él: que la persona que uno ama al principio no es la persona que uno ama al final, y que el amor no es un fin sino un proceso a través del cual una persona intenta conocer a otra.

Mata algo en la gente, algo que no puede recobrarse

Se un libro cambia è soltanto perché siamo cambiati noi e lo affrontiamo in modo diverso.

Hij begreep dat hij in die toekomst zou veranderen, maar hij zag de toekomst zelf als het instrument van verandering en niet als het doel ervan.

He conceived himself changed in that future, but he saw the future itself as the instrument of change rather than its object.

Now they were in the earth to which they had given their lives; and slowly, year by year, the earth would take them. Slowly the damp and rot would infest the pine boxes which held their bodies, and slowly it would touch their flesh, and finally it would consume the last vestiges of their substances. And they would become a meaningless part of that stubborn earth to which they had long ago given themselves.

When almost half a lifetime has been spent in one conception of order, reorientation is no five-minute business.