Transformation Quotes - Page 13

• People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

  Tim Winton

  Wisdom, People, Needs

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• Energy is the measure of that which passes from one atom to another in the course of their transformations. A unifying power, then, but also, because the atom appears to become enriched or exhausted in the course of the exchange, the expression of structure.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Expression, Atoms

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• For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course in nature, and how, under wisdom and knowledge, it may be intertwined with human destiny, instead of careering headlong to the ocean, are a study at least as pregnant with consequences to life as any lesson taught by the long unscientific history of man.

  Frederick Soddy

  Ocean, Destiny, Men

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• Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Energy, Body

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten steps to reverse ageing”, p.33, Random House

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• In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

  Holly Near

  Women, Believe, Gay

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• Don't use metaphors in fantasy; your readers will take them literally. Or they may take them figuratively - but if so, they'll also take your magics and transformations figuratively. Either way, you're in trouble.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Writing, Magic, Use

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• Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls.

  Hillary Carlip

  Writing, Light, Shining

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• Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you are an animal and not really a human being. With meditation a transformation comes: you become human, and out of your humanness, love flows.

  Rajneesh

  Animal, Simple, Law

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• Either the Earth System would undergo major phase transitions as a result of unchecked human pressure on nature's capacities and resources or a "Great Transformation" towards global sustainability would be initiated in due course. Neither transitions nor transformations will be manageable without novel forms of global governance and markets.

  Hans Joachim Schellnhuber

  Transition, Would Be, Phases

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• The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief

  Jacques Ellul

  Goal, Belief, Opinion

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• Beneath multiple specific and individual distinctions, beneath innumerable and incessant transformations, at the bottom of the circular evolution without beginning or end, there hides a law, a unique nature participated in by all beings, in which this common participation produces a ground of common harmony.

  Zhuangzi

  Science, Unique, Law

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• It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells.

  Joanna Macy

  Fall, Emotional, Shells

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• A second variety concentrated on presumed major transformations of the capitalist system as of some recent point in time, in which the whole earlier point of time served as a mythologized foil against which to treat the empirical reality of the present.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Reality, Treats, Capitalist

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.7, Verso

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• We must distinguish between the kind of structural transformation that would leave in place (even increase) the realities of the exploitation of labor, and one that would undo this kind of exploitation or at least radically reduce it

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Reality, Kind, Increase

  Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.106, Verso

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• Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Heart, Tears

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• Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing us to become truly ourselves... His gaze, the touch of His heart heals us through an undeniably painful transformation "as through fire". But it is a blessed pain, in which the holy power of His love sears through us like a flame, enabling us to become totally ourselves and thus totally of God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Pain, Blessed

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• Love is the very process of passing over, of transformation, of stepping outside the limitations of fallen humanity - in which we are all separated from one another and ultimately impenetrable to one another - into an infinite otherness.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Inspiration, Love Is

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• A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Learning, Loss, Growth

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• As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the creative process itself, so we must first have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process.

  Thomas Berry

  Dream, Future, Artist

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.10, Crown

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• It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Power, Rare Person

  Caroline Myss (2009). “Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason”, p.67, Hay House, Inc

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• War is the spectacular and bloody projection of our everyday living. We precipitate war out of our daily lives; and without a transformation in ourselves, there are bound to be national and racial antagonisms, the childish quarreling over ideologies, the multiplication of soldiers, the saluting of flags, and all the many brutalities that go to create organized murder.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Soldier, Everyday

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• Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

  Lewis Mumford

  Expression, Humanity, Intuition

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• A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

  Paul Valery

  Death, Satisfaction, Needs

  "Collected Works", vol. 1, translated by David Paul, 1972.

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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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• 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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