Yellow decided to risk for a butterfly.For courage she hung right beside the other cocoon and began to spin her own.’Imagine, I didn’t even know I could do this. That’s some encouragement that i’mon the...

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

We may travel the world over to find a good spot,But if we are blind to search within, we find it not.

He was just drifting off to sleep when it occurred to him that perhaps the dog was not so ordinary after all. Perhaps he was someone the ogre had changed, and Ivo was going to...

Often the most effective statement we can make in a noisy world is to say nothing at all. Don’t waste your words over something or to someone who deserves silence.

Leaving the age of materialism and duality behind us, we now seek to become Masters of the Spiritual Kingdom ~ moving into the penthouse of ourselves, the crown chakra, as it were. Herein lays all...

As an innovator, you need to be aware of how traditions, habits and bias can act as barriers to accepting new ideas.

For a Siddhar yogi, time is precious. It is important to utilize every moment to evolve into ever higher states of consciousness. We understand stagnancy as decay and for growth, we constantly discard the old...

[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)

Zhuangzi’s wife died. When Huizu went to convey his condolences, he found Zhuangzi sitting with his legs sprawled out, pounding on a tub and singing. “You lived with her, she brought up your children and...

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.

The damage is done. Give the thing a name, and it takes shape. They gave a name and a shape to the force that’s always hated us. It’s everything we’re not. It’s New Ireland, it’s...

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...

Does a caterpillar sit on the same leaf when it’s a butterfly? No! It goes for a little fly and sees something of the world. Does the tadpole stay in the same pond once it’s...

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...

As the caterpillar undergoes transformation and emerges as a butterfly; likewise, character undergoes transformation through experiences, aspirations and beliefs. How will you emerge?

I will say nothing… against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have...

jungle” as our warriors meet and join the battle drum that calls for unity in the struggle for breaking the chains of modern slavery—like the butterflies flying the skies and the birds over the seas,...

The Hindus believe that in the beginning was sound, a pure vibrational ohm, and as I surf these wave emanations I feel like I’ve locked onto the fundamental frequency. Seconds go by on the outside...

The truth is revealed to those who desire to know, but also to those who will take the time to take action to counter or further the truths they have come to know..

When one becomes centered in love, then and only then will all paths become open to them

Some people experience a life-changing sensation that transforms how they see the world after a near-death experience, but the way I see it, we’re all dying – nay, we’re all dead – and it is...

Friedrich Nietzsche, who famously gave us the ‘God is dead’ phrase was interested in the sources of morality. He warned that the emergence of something (whether an organ, a legal institution, or a religious ritual)...

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.

When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.

Our human inventions astound, our technological advancements are staggering,and we have amassed great wealthbut, it is only through Love that hearts are transformed, respect is fostered, and lasting peace achieved…

there’s something about trauma to the mind, body and soul. One day your normal and the next your different; you don’t know what changed but you know nothing’s the same and all of a sudden...

It’s not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

Outside, milling under the ubiquitous gaze of security cameras, are bright splashes of colorful souls wearing crystals, beads, and Native American Indian paraphernalia; middle-aged academics with “Erowid” drug website t-shirts; and passengers that give you...

We don’t have to seek new economic systems. We have to transform the people who run them.

Manipulating or controlling others through the use of one’s illness or suffering,for example,was-and remains-extremely effective for people who find they cannot be direct in their interactions,Who argues with someone who is in pain? And if...

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

One more action to transform your dreams, one more passion to reform your brand; give one more trial and you’ll never regret your willingness to hold on!

To be American is to be part of a dialogical and democratic operation that grapples with the challenge of being human in an open-ended and experimental manner. Although America is a romantic project in which...

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

If there are no new ideas, there is no innovation. And if there is no creativity, there are no new ideas.

Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form…the cosmic radiation that is thought to come from the explosion of creation strikes the...

transformation begins with the individual” Dr William Edwards DemingThe New Economics – 1993

You are here to light up the passion of your life and shine it as brightly as you possibly can for all to see. You are an example for all others on their path.” –...

Leaders are made not born. They are the results of persistent effort. Thus, leadership involves much more than just shouting. Effective leadership requires a human focus and reflects a servant and transformation mentality. It is...

When something goes wrong, what’s the best course of action? To change your direction. The word repentance means to stop going one direction (your own way) and turn toward the right direction (God’s way). Your...

Change begins the moment you make up your mind about certain details of your life

..[My friend Marco said]. essentially, humans are alive for the purpose of journey, a kind of three-act structure. They are born and spend several years discovering themselves and the world, then plod through a long...

There is Irish Spring, but there is no fall soap.

If the majority cannot be punished then they can only be transformed; and the transformation requires change of heart.

If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within.

I mightn’t be a shaman in the indigenous sense, but as a world-bridger between Western culture and the indigenous world, I knew I was playing a shamanistic role. Language was my medicine and with it...

Change and Mistakes are positive and negative terminals of cell called “Transformation”.

We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all evil out of our own hearts. The evil that is in us is more...

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...