#transformation

How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses; perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us. So you must not be frightened if a sadness rises up before you larger than any you have ever seen; if a restiveness, like light and cloudshadows, passes over your hands and over all you do. You must think that something is happening with you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall. Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any miseries, or any depressions? For after all, you do not know what work these conditions are doing inside you. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#change #courage #depression #dragons #fears

You will be transformed by what you read. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#transformation

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#self #transformation

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#transformation

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#memory #pain #transformation #transformation

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#personal-transformation #quiet-mind #self-help #soul #spiritual-life

This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces. ↗

— Earl Browder

#case #forces #growth #power #primarily

I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#aware #democratic #east #exclusively #i

It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds. ↗

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#consensus #democratization #developed #enable #essential

My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #challenged #changes #darwinian #explained