Quotes about Metamorphosis

But it is your self that must constantly be transforming. You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

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

Change is the end result of all true learning.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

And when our bodies rise again, they will be wildflowers, then rabbits, then wolves singing a perfect love to the beautiful, meaningless moon.

The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself not with the body, which is falling away, but with the consciousness of which it is a vehicle. This is something I learned from myths.

How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively. 'You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar,' Piglet replied. 'You mean to die?' asked Pooh. 'Yes and now,' he answered. 'What looks like you will die, but what's really you will live on.

Conversion meant a conscious turning away from the old way of life.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms, Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly That flieth unto judgment without screen?

We need to understand that Christianity is about changing; it is not about a religion.