Quotes about Transition

Hormonal changes permanently alter the breast's structure. And when a pregnancy is terminated through abortion, the process is interrupted, which leaves cells in a sate of transition. And they say cells in this state have a very high risk of becoming cancerous. So the woman's chances of developing breast cancer later in life my be greatly increased.

Death began to look like a friend.

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.

And then he remembered Hawat's words: Parting with people is a sadness; a place is only a place.

A time of love and a time of grief.

Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change.

A time to keep and a time to cast away; a time for love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace.

Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.

This disjunction between secular and spiritual is highlighted by the fact that the typical church building requires you to "process" in by walking up stairs or moving through a narthex. This adds to the sense that you are moving from everyday life to another life. Thus a transition is required. All of this flunks the Monday test. No matter how good Sunday was, Monday morning still comes to test our worship.