Spiritual Transformation Quotes

“Nostalgia is an illness
for those who haven't realized
that today
is tomorrow's nostalgia.”
― Zeena Schreck

“Shapeshifting requires the ability to transcend your attachments, in particular your ego attachments to identity and who you are. If you can get over your attachment to labeling yourself and your cherishing of your identity, you can be virtually anybody. You can slip in and out of different shells, even different animal forms or deity forms.”
― Zeena Schreck

“The material world is all feminine. The feminine engergy makes the non-manifest, manifest. So even men (are of the feminine energy). We have to relinquish our ideas of gender in the conventional sense. This has nothing to do with gender, it has to do with energy. So feminine energy is what creates and allows anything which is non-manifest, like an idea, to come into form, into being, to be born. All that we experience in the world around us, absolutely everything (is feminine energy). The only way that anything exists is through the feminine force.”
― Zeena Schreck

“After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.”
― Zeena Schreck

“There are Tantrics who deliberately seek to do more active forms of renunciation, so transgression of social norms and breaking of taboo, and breaking of social taboos especially, is a form of renunciation.”
― Zeena Schreck

“Only the ego wants to get rid of the ego.”
― Francis Lucille, The Perfume of Silence

“Out of the shell of the broken heart emerges the newborn soul.”
― Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Heart of Sufism: Essential Writings of Hazrat Inayat Khan

“It’s not even that you have to drop vain pursuits. God is not asking you to give up your sweeties, your favorite treats. It’s just that you start to lose interest in them.”
― Mooji, Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space

“The opportunity to experience yourself differently is always available.”
― Yongey Mingyur, The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness

“A young girl’s stroke has breathed us life
upon this luscious, grassy meadow.
Unbound we float in the aether,
protecting the sanctuary of life below.

To grow, this world needs nurturing
only Lady Solary’s warmth can provide.
Yet light flickers briefly then fades,
like a struck match failing to ignite.”
― Susan L. Marshall, All the Hope We Carry

“Since healing essentially comes from our mind, not from our body, it is important to understand the nature of the mind. The intrinsic nature of the mind is pure in the sense that it is not one with the faults of the mind, with the disturbing thoughts and obscurations. All the faults of our mind — our selfishness, ignorance, anger, attachment, guilt, and other disturbing thoughts — are temporary, not permanent and everlasting. And since the cause of our suffering, our disturbing thoughts and obscurations, is temporary, our suffering is also temporary.

The mind is also empty of true existence, of existence from its own side. This quality of mind, known as Buddha Nature, gives us the potential to free ourselves completely from all suffering, including disease, and the causes of suffering and to achieve any happiness we wish, including the peerless happiness of enlightenment. Since the mind has all this potential, we do not need to feel depressed or hopeless. It is not as if we have to experience problems forever. We have incredible freedom to develop our mind in any way that we wish. It is simply a question of finding the right way to use the potential of our mind.”
― Thubten Zopa, Ultimate Healing: The Power of Compassion

“When light is produced, we no longer worry about getting rid of darkness, nor do we wonder where the darkness has gone. We just know that there is light.”
― Ajahn Chah, A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah

“We become what we are willing to see.”
― Richard Rohr, Just This

“What we were in the past is not important. What we are now is important. What we intend to make of ourselves in the future is vitally important. The unity between our character and our destiny is inseparable; the connection between our way of thinking and the course of events is unerring.”
― Paul Brunton, Perspectives, Vol. 1: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton- A Survey of Categories 1-28

“The word Church (Ecclesia) means: The assembly of those who are called out. In other words, each individual who is called out of a godless world gathers with companions on the Way and becomes part of the Body of Christ together – incarnations of Divine Goodness. (p. 45)”
― Theodore J. Nottingham, Doorway to Spiritual Awakening: Becoming Partakers of the Divine

“To hold your soul in hell and not despair is to manage to hang on to the faith in the reality of the spiritual realm, even in the harshest time of the physical realm, even when all seems lost and in fact if you want to climb the mountain of spiritual awakening, spiritual consciousness there must be that stage where we are taken to the far edge beyond what we can bear or think we can bear. And if we hang on in faith and trust, if we call upon the help of that spiritual reality, that miracle will happen and against all odds renewal, new beginnings, redemption, can take place.

This is a verifiable, magnificent experience that I know personally, that I know others have experienced, and that you can experience. So, from the point of view of the Fourth Way all the difficulties of life become firewood for the fire. In other words, strengthen your consciousness, raise your consciousness to another level of perspective and transcendence so that you can walk calmly through the nightmare and holding on through that dark night you will achieve a new level of faith, understanding, and relationship with the spiritual reality.

If some of you are in times of great suffering and all of us walk that path somehow sometime, remember that and take it seriously for it is one of the pearls of great price and discover that the very negative things of life, personal and destructive can turn into the fertilizer for your soul, the awakening of a deeper self, and the face-to-face encounter with the reality of God's help. (p. 142-142)”
― Theodore J. Nottingham, Doorway to Spiritual Awakening: Becoming Partakers of the Divine

“Many people become aware of the effect of positive conditions when they go on retreat for the first time. The degree to which one can change in the course of just a few days is remarkable. Just leaving the city and staying in the country, being undisturbed by the pull of trivial distractions, and doing a bit more meditation and Dharma study than you usually have time for, can transform you into quite a different person – much happier, much more positive. So it isn’t enough to try to change one’s mental state through meditation; one needs the co-operation of one’s environment. Without this it is very difficult, even impossible, to develop spiritually up to the point of irreversibility.”
― Sangharakshita, The Bodhisattva Ideal : Wisdom and Compassion in Buddhism

“It’s not a question of deeper. It’s a question of opening wide, completely open. It’s not going in, in, but it’s expanding out, because you don’t have to try to make sure there is a little atom bomb inside you. But you can trust there is energy everywhere, and you have to open to it. Therefore it comes back to you at the same time.”
― Chogyam Trungpa; et al

“The enemy uses storms and seasons of hardship as opportunity to ravage and ruin us, but God uses storms and hardship as opportunity to rebuild and refine us.”
― Mistie House, Emergence: How to Experience Beauty and New Life in Dead and Dark Places

“I don't know if there's an illustration more clear as to what can really take place in a person's life spiritually than this animated character transforming from an animal to a prince”
― Glen Keane

“Realizing that [Beauty and the Beast] is the Beast's story allows us to see everything through the ultimate lens of this story - redemption”
― Bethel Grove, Redeeming the Beast: A Devotional Adventure through Beauty and the Beast

“A stable inner visualisation fosters clarity of mind and tranquility in our reactions to the world. By shifting our perception and thought patterns, we purify our experiences, paving the way for positive outcomes that reshape our entire world.”
― Anton Sammut

“LIFE IS NOT A STORY OF SUFFERING & LOSS BUT OF HOW WE MOVE THROUGH THE CHAOS AND UNCERTAINTY
TO FIND THE FINEST VERSION OF OURSELVES THAT WE WOULD BE CONTENT TO LIVE WITH FOREVER.”
― Mark L Lockwood

“You’re not forging a new world—you’re stepping into the ‘you’ already living it.”
― David Maze, 9 Analogies of Consciousness

“In contrast, he describes spiritual transformation as an ‘established descent of the spiritual peace, light, knowledge, power, bliss from above, the awareness of the self and the divine and of a higher cosmic consciousness and the change of the whole consciousness to that’.18 The path to spiritual transformation leads the seeker through several experiences and realizations: temporary stages of peace, calm and silence; the discovery of the Self and its experience on various planes of consciousness; and experiences on the higher planes with its different layers—Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Overmind. Not only to receive influences from these planes, but to actually live in them is, according to Sri Aurobindo, ‘a definite stage in the movement towards transformation’.19


Finally, we learn about the two main and alternating movements leading to spiritual transformation—the ascent of the lower consciousness towards the higher, and the descent of the higher, of peace, force, light and Ananda, into the lower to transform it. These and the experiences connected with them end this remarkable journey from the first opening of the inner veil to the psychic and spiritual transformation of all the planes and parts of the being, opening the gate to the essence and crown of Sri Aurobindo’s yoga: the supramental transformation.”
― Gautam Chikermane, Reading Sri Aurobindo

“With heart open and eyes lifted - step into the unfolding, trusting the one who authors 'Beauty from Ashes”
― AshRawArt

“in the hush of the night - you are still becoming - some of the most sacred things are shaped - in the hush of the night - you are still becoming...”
― AshRawArt

“In the turning of leaves and the hush of shorter days, we find the holy beauty of change”
― AshRawArt

“As seasons turn, so does the canvas of our lives, painted by the Creator's own hand”
― AshRawArt

“A woman who learns to burn without hatred becomes ungovernable.”
#ShaktiProtocol #FeminineAlchemy #ScorpioSeason”
― Nabal Kishore Pande, BURN: The Law of Release