Quotes about Change

Yes, transformation is often more about unlearning than learning, which is why the religious traditions call it "conversion" or "repentance.

all mature spirituality, in one sense or another, is about letting go and unlearning.

We do not think ourselves into a new way of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

Jesus did not come to change the mind of God about humanity (it did not need changing)! Jesus came to change the mind of humanity about God.

We do not think ourselves into new ways of living. We live ourselves into new ways of thinking.

What the ego (the False Self) hates and fears more than anything else is change. It will think up a thousand other things to be concerned about or be moralistic about—anything rather than giving up "who I think I am" and "who I need to be to look good.

Resurrection" is another word for change, but particularly positive change—which we tend to see only in the long run. In the short run, it often just looks like death.

You do not think yourself into a new way of living as much as you live your way into a new way of thinking.

You normally have to let go of the old and go through a stage of unknowing or confusion, before you can move to another level of awareness or new capacity.

A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.

If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego!

Unless you build your first house well, you will never leave it. To build your house well is, ironically, to be nudged beyond its doors.