“After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.” WorldWayInspirationalFirstsLightAgeCommunityCompassionStepsJourneyPositionReturnMountainTransformationEverydayHumbleStatementsClimbsTouchedValleysSummitBeing ThereCompletionQuietness Author:Ram Dass
“It is easier to talk about doing things than doing them. Many of us want to exercise more, eat more healthy, be kinder to our loved ones, etc., but unless we have specific milestones about how to do this, our intentions do not match our actions. The HR milestones we lay out offer specific steps along the longer journey to HR transformation.” WantActionStepsJourneyEasierExerciseHealthyOffersTransformationLaysIntentionEtcLoved OnesOur ActionsKinderMilestone Author:Dave Ulrich
“I really believe that is helping people. I've been talking to oncologists about how we can re-frame and re-think the chemo process, so it becomes a much more spiritual, psychological journey. Where people really could burn away what needs to be burned away. It's happening anyway. Why not frame it in a psychological way where it can serve as a transformation?” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsBelieveHelpingSpiritualProcessTalkingJourneyHappeningsTransformationPsychologicalWhy NotBurnedHelping PeopleOncologists Author:Eve Ensler
“Often on a journey of spiritual transformation, that is ultimately what heals the pain: the veil is removed from in front of our own eyes and we see where we had been thinking thoughts that would inevitably lead to pain. Until we change those thoughts, the pain will remain.” ThinkingEyePainSpiritualJourneyFrontsTransformationHealVeilsSpiritual Transformation Author:Marianne Williamson
“Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do.” HumansPersonsFacesCan DoDarknessJourneyWeaponsSurvivalTransformationSpeciesNarrative Author:Chris Abani
“I wanted to write something that was very entertaining to read. The hardest part of this novel [The Yoga of Max's Discontent] was how to make a deeply spiritual transformation journey page-turning and adventurous. That was the hardest part to crack for me.” WritingWantedSpiritualNovelJourneyPagesYogaTransformationHardestCracksEntertainingAdventurousDiscontentMaxSpiritual TransformationPages Turning Author:Karan Bajaj
“People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.” PeopleKnowsShouldMindHeartImportantReasonLastsSpiritualPoliticalSocialGrowthPracticePathIssuesJourneyYogaSittingTransformationFundamentalsPersonal GrowthRecoveryDriversMechanicHeart And MindSpiritual PathSpiritual PracticePolitical Issues Author:Marianne Williamson
“Most people who read the autobiography perceive the narrative as a story that now millions of people know, and it was - it's a story of human transformation, the powerful epiphany, Malcolm's X journey to Mecca, his renunciation of the Nation of Islam's racial separatism, his embrace of universal humanity, of humanism that was articulated through Sunni Islam. Well, that's the story everybody knows.” PeopleKnowsHumansWellsStoriesHumanityNationsPowerfulMillionsJourneyUniversalTransformationEmbraceIslamHumanismNarrativePerceiveAutobiographyEpiphanyRenunciationMeccaNation Of Islam Author:Manning Marable
“My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.” JourneyCitizensDiscoveryTransformationFellowsSupposed To BePresidency Author:Sarah Palin
“And what classical music does best and must always do more, is to show this kind of transformation of moods, to show a very wide psychological voyage. And I think that's something that we as classical musicians have underestimated.” ThinkingKindDoeShowsJourneyMusicianTransformationWideMoodPsychologicalClassical MusicVoyagesUnderestimatedClassical Musicians Author:Michael Tilson Thomas