Human Transformation Quotes

#1. Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem.

Terence McKenna

#2. I am trying to be in that alchemical soup of human transformation. I am trying to process, reconcile, forgive, let go, and grieve, when necessary ...

Marianne Williamson

#3. Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

Joel Garreau

#4. The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.

John Ortberg

#5. In community, we discover who we really are and how much transformation we still require. This is why I am irrevocably committed to small groups. Through them, we can accomplish our God-entrusted work to transform human beings.

John Ortberg

#6. Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor.

Martin Heidegger

#7. Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you are an animal and not really a human being. With meditation a transformation comes: you become human, and out of your humanness, love flows.

Rajneesh

#8. Sometimes I feel that the wars in my country ended so early, we are still thirsty of bloodshed, murder and killing.
We lost too many but not enough, the transformation from barbarian society to a human didn't complete yet.

M.F. Moonzajer

#9. In today's time, no other 'charity' is acceptable or practical than the 'wisdom' that can transform the human life... Meaning the knowledge which can teach a man to climb the ladder of success.

Deep Trivedi

#10. The greatest need in the world at this moment is the transformation of human nature.

Billy Graham

#11. Some people say about human beings, 'Dust to dust'.
But how can that be true of one
who changes road dust to doorway?
The crop appears to be one thing
when it is still in the field.
Then the transformation time comes,
and we see how it is: half chaff, half grain.

Rumi

#12. The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence through the settlements we build for ourselves.

Paulo Mendes Da Rocha

#13. What intrigues me most about the human voice, is its ability to make all things transparent through its power of transformation. The voice is not just a conduit for words. For me it is like an abstract dream in which everything makes perfect sense.

Azam Ali

#14. The soil needs the seed and the seed needs the soil. The one only has meaning with the other. It is the same thing with human beings. When male knowledge joins with female transformation, then the great magical union is created, and its name is wisdom. Wisdom means both to know and to transform.

Paulo Coelho

#15. Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart

Pope John Paul II

#16. As we transcended and transformed from Neanderthal so will future humans transcend to a new level of consciousness and transform into a super human or homo-cosmicus.

Debasish Mridha

#17. If you check back through human history, you will find that three things, more than any others, have produced social transformation: violence, knowledge and wealth - and the greatest of these is wealth!

C. Wagner

#18. When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.

Daisaku Ikeda

#19. The greatest need in the world is the transformation of human nature. We need a new heart that will not have lust and greed and hate in it. We need a heart filled with love and peace and joy, and that is why Jesus came into the world.

Billy Graham

#20. If we define society as a human community, then the transformation of individual attitudes and values represents meaningful social change.

Leslie Weisman

#21. 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.

Chris Abani

#22. werewolves were members of the old Danish families who owned slaves. Their transformation was God's punishment for their wrongdoings. You could spy their teeth and claws at night, even when they were in their human guise, so they often wore gloves and scarves, even in the hottest times of the year.

Alice Hoffman

#23. The transformation of environment has become the purpose of human life; life seems real only insofar as it deals with things.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

#24. Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.

Radhanath Swami

#25. The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering

Dalai Lama

#26. Power, as human beings exercise power, to me means the ability to change: the ability to change oneself, the ability to change one's community. And the positive use of power is transformation of self and community toward a higher ideal, toward a healed world.

Katharine Jefferts Schori

#27. Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about service, solidarity, about exploring and rediscovering the human spirit that has been lost or shattered through human conflict, cruelty, ignorance and greed ...

Hizkias Assefa

#28. There is no such thing as change, but I would describe it as an alteration.' Change implies transformation, if humanity has instincts and impulses how can we deny the very things that make us human.' If change implies transformation wouldn't that mean we have no impulses and instincts.

Testy McTesterson

#29. When all is said and done, the only change that will make a difference is the transformation of the human heart.

Peter Senge

#30. the technology is not a single cause of a cultural transformation like the Renaissance, but it is, in many ways, just as important to the story as the human visionaries that we conventionally celebrate.

Steven Johnson

#31. The Universe is a closed system. Nothing is ever created or destroyed,
things are merely transformed.
Thus, transformation is the way of the Universe. This is the great lesson human beings must learn.

G. Mark Phillips

#32. Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Jayne Anne Phillips

#33. Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing ... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.

Harry Mathews

#34. True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.

Nirmala Srivastava

#35. Reading the Bible for spiritual transformation is not a one-sided endeavor: it is a dialogue of human spirit and Holy Spirit.

Richard J. Foster

#36. All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Karl Marx

#37. One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy.

Nirmala Srivastava

#38. And so we realize that human beings have to be transformed and have to enter into a higher state of awareness, through inner transformation. This has to be the last breakthrough of our evolution, which is a living process.

Nirmala Srivastava

#39. A space was quickly cleared in the crowd, and a rope placed about his neck, when from somewhere came the suggestion, "Burn him!" It ran like an electric current. Have you ever witnessed the transformation of human beings into savage beasts? Nothing can be more terrible.

James Weldon Johnson

#40. Meeting the "self" activates the transformation of human consciousness,

Caroline Myss

#41. The goal of the human experience is to transform ourselves from being who long to attain power in the physical world to beings who are empowered from within.

Caroline Myss

#42. This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

Terence McKenna

#43. The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age.

Nirmala Srivastava

#44. For the integrated human being there is no past: there is only the continual transformation of original experience.

Vivian Gornick

#45. Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege.

Patsie Smith

#46. In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#47. The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

Terence McKenna

#48. For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

William Irwin Thompson

#49. A human body is associated with six stages of transformation, birth, growth, change, evolution, death and destruction.

Sathya Sai Baba

#50. He suddenly understood the message of so many spiritual teachers that the only revolution that can work is the inner transformation of every human being.

Stanislav Grof

#51. Every transformation of humanity has rested upon deep stirrings and intuitions, whose rationalized expression takes the form of a new picture of the cosmos and the nature of the human.

Lewis Mumford

#52. He went to make coffee. Because when you have just heard about the possible transformation of the human race into feral monsters you need to be doing something with your hands and creating something hot and comforting for another person.

Charlie Jane Anders

#53. Religion" (a person's own efforts to find their way to God through being "good" or following rituals) is a poor substitute for true spiritual power: the life of God breathed into a human being, bringing genuine transformation.

Bob Hamp

#54. Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it.

Desmond Tutu

#55. Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race

Jeremy Griffith

#56. Storytellers have as profound a purpose as any who are charged to guide and transform human lives. I knew it as an ancient discipline and vocation to which everyone is called.

Nancy Mellon

#57. Our most intense joy comes not from personal feats, but from helping other persons achieve their goals. We become suppler human beings when we find true joy in witnessing other people's successes and unabashedly share in their joyful accomplishments.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#58. Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made world.

Michael Shannon

#59. Flowers reconnect us to our own beautiful and unique essence as human beings. They wake up our positive qualities so that we feel them and they begin to emanate from us, just as each flower radiates its own unique quality.

Katie Hess

#60. We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Ani DiFranco

#61. That scorpion is turning me into a human! Quick, stop him! Before the transformation is complete!

Vernon D. Burns

#62. Since ancient times the term awakening has been used as a kind of metaphor that points to the transformation of human consciousness. There are parables in the New Testament that speak of the importance of being awake, of not falling back to sleep.

Eckhart Tolle

#63. Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.

Aberjhani

#64. Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

Daisaku Ikeda

#65. We neither need a political revolution nor a religious revolution. What we need is an inner transformation in human beings.

Jaggi Vasudev

#66. There's only about about 6 to 8 inches between an open book and a human being's heart. A lot can happen in those 7 inches. Perspectives, fresh perspectives occur and minds expand, and I love fiction and I feel like it's a possibility for transformation.

Aline Ohanesian