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Transformation Quotes


"Her rebirth stood in her mind with the clarity of a perfect diamond, the light scattering the rainbows through her body."


"My take on personal evolution is largely about the spirit of connecting and disconnecting things, relating to what I call "the gap or time and space between things. It is also about becoming practical in all this, developing the power and precision to simply bring the grand ideas home, to compress the paradigm of perception/choice/action/result into a single gesture."


"A butterfly does not wonder how it can stop being a caterpillar. It simply feels some feeling from within that tells it: isolate yourself in this cocoon and grow within it. It trusts that feeling. When it comes out, it is radiant and beautiful. All the little bug did was follow its nature. You are no different."


"God's Word transforms you into someone who reflects His glory."


"That whole day, being with Willem, being Lulu, it made me realize that all my life I've been living in a small, square room, with no windows and no doors. And I was fine. I was happy, even. I thought. Then someone came along and showed me there was a door in the room. One that I'd never even seen before. Then he opened it for me. Held my hand as I walked through it. And for one perfect day, I was on the other side. I was somewhere else. Someone else. And then he was gone, and I was thrown back into my little room. And now, no matter what I do, I can't seem to find that door."


"So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents. I didn't have any supposedly sacred piece of land or shoals of friends to leave behind. Nowhere has the number zero been of more philisophical value than in the United States.... and when the [train] plunged into a tunnel under New York City, with it's lining of pipes and wires, I was out of the womb and into the birth canal."


"Extreme anxiety, fear, exhaustion, and lack of other viable options are what cause a person to surrender everything. Desperation is also the raw material of drastic change. Crisis spurs critical, dramatic shifts in a person's psyche. Only a person who is willing to lose everything will transform himself or herself. Only by moving outside our comfort zone of the past " letting go of a former being " will a person expand their state of conscious awareness. Now that I am desperate, I am dangerous. I am also ripe for transformation."


"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."


"We need a tremendous amount of energy and we dissipate it through fear but when there is this energy which comes from throwing off every form of fear, that energy itself produces the radical inward revolution."


"Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change."


"It's a number."It's not, she said. "It's a chance to wake up new."


"When the kingdom of light increases, the kingdom of darkness reduces."


"Without God's help and His grace, it is impossible for a country to be transformed."


"Before it was just her infernal curves that fretted me, but now I've taken her whole soul into my soul, and through her I've become a man!"


"It is by suffering that human beings become angels."


"When I was just a cute little caterpillar, you loved me. So I became a butterfly so you would never leave."


"God's Word is the tool the Holy Spirit uses to change our worldly thinking to heavenly thinking."


"The struggles of the past are the gateway to the blessings of the future."


"The fire of my tribulations had not simply been pain to be endured. It had been an agent of transformation. After all that I'd been through, I'd changed. Not for the worse, I was pretty sure--at least not yet. But only a moron or a freaking lunatic could have faced the things I had and remained unfazed by them."


"And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire."


"I was afraid and knew I had every right to be, but he had awakened a part of me that no longer cared."


"He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep. Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself."


"We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage."


"Change is in the air. This change reminds us that we are made and beautifully sculpted by the same power that orchestrates the change of season. Let this be the season you embrace and align yourself with this change."


"Silly me, thinking you actually had potential. I thought, Finally, she's realized she's a vampire. Now we're getting somewhere. But now you're just a big fluffy bunny with sharp teeth."


"Unless a person actually hates sin, he will continue to practice it."


"A farewell to my shadow is not my death, it's my rebirth in darkness."


"God always turns a person's weakness into strength."


"You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else."


"A star is a rock that could no longer hide its beauty from the world."


"To allow Christ to live in you is to lose your ego-centric motivation."


"Change comes from a process of trials and wilderness experiences, problems and difficulties - it's a process of transition from one quality level to another."


"The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives."


"If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within."


"Anyone who accepts Jesus into his heart and believes Him always becomes great."


"Sometimes to change a situation you are in requires you to take a giant leap. But, you won't be able to fly unless you are willing to transform."


"The devil will not be fine about your blessing and will make sure that your blessings become your headache."


"Rather than being green with envy, realize that a dramatic difference between the "haves and "have-nots is the "do and "do-nots. If you are seeking positive change and transformation, what can you begin to do?"


"Knowledge acted upon makes all the difference, produces the different results we have in life."


"Time evolves daily."


"To desire to change one's past means there is a desire to change oneself. To desire to change oneself, one must learn to change."


"We must change our way of thinking, correct our plans and envision new ways of attaining our goals."


"Think like the great, speak like the great, act like the great, and you will become like the great."


"Time can be converted to anything. It is from that time that everything is made."


"The world is changing and you're only just becoming accustomed to it. You're changing, I suppose. You've changed since I've known you.''How?''You've come more alive."


"To harden the earththe rocks took charge:instantlythey grew wings:the rocksthat soared:the survivorsflew upthe lightning bolt,screamed in the night,a watermark,a violet sword,a meteor.The succulentskyhad not only clouds,not only space smelling of oxygen,but an earthly stoneflashing here and therechanged into a dove,changed into a bell,into immensity, into a piercingwind:into a phosphorescent arrow,into salt of the sky."


"If I see darkness in the area of finances I bring light there."
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