Transformation Quotes

“O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.”

“We know that madness belongs to love,--what power to paint a vile object in hues of heaven.”

“You are an alchemist; make gold of that.”

“Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.”

“Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.”

“Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.”

“Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.”

“Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.”

“You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.”

“The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.”

“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.”

“The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”

“Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.”

“Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you.”

“Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.”

“I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.”

“Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”

“Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean.”

“Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.”

“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”

“Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.”

“I merged so completely with love, and was so fused,that I became Love and Love became me.”

“The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.”

“Be crumbled.So wild flowers will come up where you are.You have been stony for too many years.Try something different.Surrender.”

“They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion.”