#transform

[I]t is important not to abandon the practice [of yoga] because we believe it is driven by the wrong motivation. The practice of yoga itself transforms. Yoga has a magical quality. . . . (20) ↗

— Ravi Ravindra

#practice #transformation #yoga #motivational

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside an enslaved personality, to become impersonal by transforming into sand, into water, into light. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #grimace #impersonal #impossible #light

As it is with spiritual discoveries and affections given at first conversion, so it is in all subsequent illuminations and affections of that kind; they are all transforming. There is a like divine power and energy in them as in the first discoveries; they still reach the bottom of the heart, and affect and alter the very nature of the soul, in proportion to the degree in which they are given. And a transformation of nature is continued and carried on by them to the end of life, until it is brought to perfection in glory. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#soul #transformation #nature

Each simplest act, each hidden intention, had to be cut to the Rule and polished and perfected like the tiny stones of a mysterious mosaic which had no meaning when looked at one by one, except that one by one they fitted together and suggested a pattern. The pattern was the formation of the nun but she was too close to see it. ↗

— Katherine Cavarly Hulme

#nun #personal-transformation #religion-christianity #sister-luke #religion

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials. ↗

— Isabelle Adjani

#been #brought #initiation #karmic #life

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#behavior #china #hard #how #matter

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#damaged #fate #i #knowing #lives

History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. ↗

— Paul Eldridge

#footnotes #history #into #silent #transformation

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue. ↗

— David Bohm

#being #beings #come #common #constantly

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

— Jacques Ellul

#arouse #belief #goal #longer #modern