Quotes about Change

Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

To move from your way of thinking or acting to God's way of thinking or acting will require fundamental adjustments.

For with God, there's always another role to undertake, a fresh assignment, and another task that will call upon everything we've experienced and learned thus far. God is never finished with us. He may, however, be finished with our current role. If so, we must be prepared to take on the next assignment that inevitably comes.

The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo — even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future.

God does not love us if we change, God loves us so that we can 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.