transformation Quotes

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root.'

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

My characters tend to be more dynamic because they're reaching that point in their lives where their old way of being is breaking down. They're conflicted by the idea that they don't know what's next. You could call it Kierkegaard's leap of faith, when you get tired of sort of reinventing yourself on a very superficial level.

A big reason why I started writing is I felt that fiction had stopped evolving. All other entertainments were getting better, constantly, as technology allowed. Movies. Video games. Music.

I would say any behavior that is not the status quo is interpreted as insanity, when, in fact, it might actually be enlightenment. Insanity is sorta in the eye of the beholder.