Quotes About Transformation

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

If I get stuck in who I am now, I will never blossom into who I might yet become. I need to practice the gentle art of letting go. —SAM KEEN, AUTHOR

How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." —TRINA PAULUS

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.

Here I am,' he said to himself, on that first day. 'A born-again vegetarian Zulu with a fake French passport and a pocket full of dollars'.

The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds.

The Republic cured me of the Republic.

Something in me broke and I was never the same thereafter.

Being yourself is not remaining where you are, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure. Sydney J. Harris

Time commences with mutable things; if they perish, it perishes with them.

The rudimentary being inspired with vitality, progresses; its fluid parts thicken, its soft parts become firm, membrane changes into cartilage, and cartilage into bone, bone hardens and is welded into neighboring bones, the entire being advances towards solidification.

Your case against me is so very clearly stated I plead no contest, I just turn and shrug I've come to figure all importance overestimated You must mean water when you beg for blood

The yogis say you can never step into the same river twice, because the current is always shifting and changing. You've never stepped into this exact river before today. Not with this body, not with today's particular energy, with the specific number of bites of breakfast in your belly, with the earth tipped on its axis. Perhaps up until now you haven't had a breakthrough in this pose, but that was then. What's possible today?

There is a Turkish proverb that says, "No matter how far you have gone down a wrong road, turn back," and that is exactly what I did. It was painful, but also one of the most beautiful things I have ever experienced.

Yoga is a dance of dealing with what is, and allowing yourself to fully experience whatever you're experiencing right here, in the moment. In life, we so often resist what we don't like or don't want to do. Here, on your mat, is a safe opportunity to see what's on the other side of that. Physical asana is a measure of some higher possibility. Put your attention on what you want to have happen and be for it, and watch the magic unfold.

Transformation comes not by adding things on but by removing what didn't belong in the first place.

what he meant by repentance wasn't that we should dwell on where we lost our way and all the ways we are bad, but rather to have the courage to face the pure, unsweetened truth of ourselves so that we can move on and grow in more honest and authentic ways. It is simply the willingness to see in full truthfulness what we need to face within ourselves and our lives so that we may get into the right alignment.

Be a drop, a stream, or a raging river—it doesn't matter which form you take, as long as you remain in the flow

the end, if you dedicate your energies to detaching from struggle, giving up fear, taking right action, and practicing true patience within yourself, you will find that all the pieces of your life begin to radiate with the luminosity of whole and true health.

just remember that doing anything that begins to shift the pattern and lessen the gravity of suffering or frustration is a breakthrough.

If you want to reach someplace new, you have to do something different than you've always done. Same actions will only yield the same results.

The wall is an architectural striptease.

I am much better without tobacco, and already have a difficulty in sympathizing with the man I used to be. Even to call him up, as it were, and regard him without prejudice is a difficult task, for we forget the old selves on whom we have turned our backs, as we forget a street that has been reconstructed.