How many nights must it takeone such as me to learnthat we aren’t, after all, madefrom that bird that flies out of its ashes, that for usas we go up in flames, our one workisto open ourselves, to bethe flames?
Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.
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Alan Cohen
Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.
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Toni Cade Bambara
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 was that in nearly every story, the protagonist is transformed....
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Donald Miller
I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.
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Anthony Kiedis
As we enter the path of transformation, the most valuable thing we have working in our favor is our yearning.
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Cynthia Bourgeault
More Quotes By Galway Kinnell
Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight, when I come backwe will go out together, we will walk out together among, the ten thousand things, each scratched too late with such knowledge, the wages of dying is love.
Let our scars fall in love.
When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn’tknow which way any of them will go.
The budstands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it is necessaryto reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its browof the flowerand retell it in words and in touchit...
How many nights must it takeone such as me to learnthat we aren’t, after all, madefrom that bird that flies out of its ashes, that for usas we go up in flames, our one workisto open ourselves, to bethe flames?
