#transformation

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.

For habit is first weakened and then entirely destroyed.

If you want to become full, let yourself be empty. If you want to be reborn, let yourself die.

If powerful men and women could center themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythm.

I love those who do not know how to live unless by going under, for they are the ones who cross over.

You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

A snake that cannot shed its skin must die. So firms the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Find out what you fear most; that is where you will find your next growth.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

The highest, most decisive moments of life are often accompanied by fear.

Even a helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

Hidden nature is secret divinity. Man is a transitional being; he is not final. For in man and high beyond him rise the radiant degrees of the divine consciousness.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

The dawn arrives quietly, without fanfare, yet transforms the world.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

True revolution is the psychological revolution of the individual.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.

True spirituality is not to renounce life, but to make life divine.

Transformation of the outer nature is the true goal of integral yoga.

Adversity is the chisel that carves the divine image out of rough human clay.

A single moment of true aspiration can alter lifetimes.

The master is one who has transformed his lowest impulses into light.

The arrow of the master's word struck my heart; it pierced through illusion and awakened the sleeping soul.

The moth sees the flame and dives in with joyous surrender; the true lover surrenders all petty selfhood in the flame of truth.