transformation Quotes

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.