Transformation Quotes - Page 9

• Societal transformation isn't going to happen in one month, one year, or even one lifetime. But we see it happen person by person in front of us, and we don't have to worry about the future if we're taking care of the present. In some sense, that's the best insurance policy we can have.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Worry, Care, Lifetime

  Source: eomega.org

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• When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.

  Wole Soyinka

  Children, War, Obstacles

  Source: whatsonafrica.org

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• Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as periods of great human affirmation. It's been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.

  Adrienne Rich

  People, Magic, Culture

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• Like any other spiritual transformation or renewal, conversion must begin with an honest and a sincere admission that we need God's trans-formative power in our lives to achieve any real change, no matter the perspective from which we might begin.

  Wilton Daniel Gregory

  Spiritual, Real, Perspective

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• I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.

  Mariah Carey

  People, Details, Attention

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Sympathy, True Friend, Giving

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• My message, my key, my golden key to transform your energies, is creativity. Be more and more creative, and slowly slowly you will see a transformation happening of its own accord. Your mind will disappear, your body will have a totally different feel to it, and constantly you will remain aware that you are separate, that you are a pure witness.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Keys, Creative

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• I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets, wonder, craziness - and that can make me laugh.

  Anne Lamott

  Spiritual, Real, Book

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• A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Light

  Sri Aurobindo (2016). “The Future Evolution of Man: The Divine Life on Earth”, p.39, editionNEXT.com

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• That the different Christian confessions, aware of the need for a new evangelisation in this period of profound transformations, may be committed to announcing the Good News and moving towards the full unity of all Christians in order to offer a more credible testimony of the Gospel.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Moving, Order

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• Choicelessness is the alchemy of transformation, of inner mutation. A new being is born who has nothing to do with the past, who is absolutely discontinuous with the past. He has no desire. And when there is no desire, for the first time you live

  Rajneesh

  Past, Desire, Mutation

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• I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

  Rainn Wilson

  Character, Theatre

  The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. August 19, 2008.

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• I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

  Alber Elbaz

  Personality, Dresses, Want

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• With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring teeth through the crimson walls, rending them; the ravenous garden slavered over its prey and every brick was shown in the act of falling. Amid the violence of this transformation, the oblivion of the embrace went on. The awakened girl, in all her youthful loveliness, still clasped in the arms of a lover from whom all the flesh had fallen. He was a grinning skeleton.

  Angela Carter

  Girl, Wall, Flower

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• How many of my basic principles were upset by this change in my attitude toward the Christian Social movement! My views with regard to anti-Semitism thus succumbed to the passage of time, and this was my greatest transformation of all.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Attitude, Views

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

  Alan Watts

  Opposites, Play, Choices

  Alan Watts (2017). “Psychotherapy East & West”, p.65, New World Library

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• All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

  Bell Hooks

  Commitment, Reflection, Self

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• The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting ground for the sexes, a space for criticism, struggle, and transformation.

  Bell Hooks

  Sex, Struggle, Space

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.52, Routledge

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• Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are important, yet they tend to focus primarily on cathartic individual psychological personal prejudice without stressing the need for corresponding change in political commitment and action. A woman who attends an unlearning racism workshop and learns to acknowledge that she is racist is no less a threat than one who does not. Acknowledgment of racism is significant when it leads to transformation.

  Bell Hooks

  Stress, Commitment, White

  "Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center". Book by Bell Hooks, 1984.

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• But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Crowds, Revolution

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and began anew; he would discard his old, mundane existence and move to Elantris. Elantris, where he could live in bliss, rule in wisdom, and be worshiped for eternity. Eternity ended ten years ago.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Moving, Years, Mundane Life

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• The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old)

  Carl Jung

  Half, Mark, Critical

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• When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Levels, Consciousness

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• For authentic transformation is not a matter of belief but of the death of the believer; not a matter of translating the world but of transforming the world; not a matter of finding solace but of finding infinity on the other side of death. The self is not made content; the self is made toast.

  Ken Wilber

  Self, Sides, Infinity

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.27, Shambhala Publications

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• Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development.

  Ken Wilber

  Long, Lines, Firsts

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.542, Shambhala Publications

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