#transformation

If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed. He's a jerk at the beginning and nice at the end, or a coward at the beginning and brave at the end. If the character doesn't change, the story hasn't happened yet. And if story is derived from real life, if story is just condensed version of life then life itself may be designed to change us so that we evolve from one kind of person to another. ↗

— Donald Miller

#change

Where's Simon?" Clary interrupted. Isabelle wobbled. "He's a rat," she said darkly. Did he do something to you?" Alec was full of brotherly concern. "Did he touch you? If he tried anything-" No, Alec," Isabelle said irritably. "Not like that. He's a rat." She's drunk," said Jace, beginning to turn away in disgust. I'm not," Isabelle said indignantly. "Well, maybe a little, but that's not the point. The point is, Simon drank one of those blue drinks- I told him not to, but he didn't listen- and he turned into a rat. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#rat #simon-lewis #transformation #humor

transformation begins with the individual” Dr William Edwards Deming The New Economics - 1993 ↗

— Priyavrat Thareja

#transformation #leadership

The time is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. (on being 36 yrs old) ↗

— C.G. Jung

#transformation #life

Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#death-to-life #destruction #redemption #sanctification #transformation

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms... ↗

— John Geddes

#rain #storms #transformation #beauty

The political writer, then is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives. ↗

— Cherríe L. Moraga Gloria Anzaldua

#change

...your tranquil yes to the changing over into the formless void of the unlimited. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#the-void #timelessness #transformation #change

Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who prepares his mind for a particular message that he wants or expects to hear, but is one who remains empty because he knows that he can never expect to anticipate the words that will transform his darkness into light. He does not even anticipate a special kind of transformation. He does not demand light instead of darkness. He waits on the Word of God in silence, and, when he is answered it is not so much by a word that bursts into his silence. It is by his silence itself, suddenly, inexplicably revealing itself to him as a word of great power, full of the voice of God. (17) ↗

— Stephen Cope

#darkness #god #light #silence #transformation

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. ↗

— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

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