Quotes about Transformation

As this life evaporated before his eyes, Siddhartha felt a shiver, as if someone had ripped off his winter coat and left him naked in the cold. But he wasn't naked, and far from dead. Instead of the mask of images and memories, surrounding him on every side was something pure and free: life itself. He couldn't remember who he was. There was nothing left of his fears and dreams, nothing to do, nothing to want. He was simply alive, the breath of the breath, the eye of the eye.

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

Revival occurs as a group of people who, on the whole, think they already know the gospel discover they do not really or fully know it, and by embracing the gospel they cross over into living faith.

A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

Progress requires change.

Progress does not occur without change.

My leadership began to take flight when I allowed myself to press people to change-whether they thanked me or cursed me.