Transformation

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“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”
–  Joseph Campbell

“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.”
–  Marcus Aurelius

"For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture."
-  William Irwin Thompson

“Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit.  That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit.  Information has been internalized into behavioral change, which is called transformation.”
–  Shiv Khera

"The reality of getting married, it really changed things into something beautiful.  There was transformation."
-  Peter Scolari

“It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you implement that effort into your life. Every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs. Keep going. Remember why you started.”
-  Jillian Michaels

"Really changing might make you dissatisfied with yourself and many others also dissatisfied with you.
Changing can be risky, can be dangerous, can be disastrous; not changing might be the same.
Transformation tests the mettle of free will."
-   Mike Garofalo, Pulling Onions

"Changing is not just changing the things outside of us.  First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit.  That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing."
-  Thich Nhat Hanh

“Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.”
-  Bernie S. Siegel

"Transformation isn’t sweet and bright. It’s a dark and murky, painful pushing. An unraveling of the untruths you’ve carried in your body. A practice in facing your own created demons. A complete uprooting, before becoming.”
-  Victoria Erickson

"Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people."
-  Michael W. Smith

“Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.”
-  Michael Hyatt

“Change is inevitable, but transformation is by conscious choice.”
-  Heather Ash Amara

“The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle.”
-  Janet S. Dickens

"As it turns out, to "become who you are: is not about finding a "who" you have always been looking for.  It is not about separating "you" off from everybody else.  And it not about existing as you truly "are" for all time.  The self does not lie passively in wait for us to discover it.  Selfhood is made in the active, ongoing process, in the German verb werden, "to become."  The enduring nature of being human is to turn into something else.  This may come as a great disappointment to one who goes in search of the self.  What one is, essentially, is this active transformation, nothing more, nothing less.  This is not a grand wisdom quest or hero's journey and it doesn't require one to escape to the mountains.  No mountain is high enough.  Just a bit of cheese and any fast moving river will suffice." 
-  By John Kaag, Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are, 2018, p.220

“Transformation literally means going beyond your form.”
-  Wayne Dyer

"It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory.  That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory."
-  Edgar Degas

"Be a loner.  That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth.  Have holy curiosity.  Make your life worth living."
-  Albert Einstein

“Transformation isn’t a future event. It’s a present day activity.”
-  Jillian Michaels

"We really can be happier if we think about our lives, if we work on ourselves, if we learn to make more sensible decisions, or indeed if we alter our thoughts, our beliefs, or the way we imagine ourselves in the world.  The great paradox of happiness is that it can be tamed while still remaining essentially beyond our control.  Happiness is a matter of fate and chance; but it can also stem from a rational, deliberate approach."
-  Frederic Lenoir, Happiness 

Albert Ellis.  A New Guide to Rational Living.  By Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper.  Third Edition, Thoroughly Revised and Updated for the Twenty-First Century.  Hollywood, CA, Melvin Powers Wilshire Book Company, 1961, 1997.  Index, bibliography, 283 pages.  VSCL. 

James Clear.  Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones.  Avery, 2018, 320 pages.  VSCL. 

"The Edwardian Apostles [an advanced and select discussion group at Cambridge University in England in 1905] were ambitious men who wanted their work to endure in memory.  They even had a code-word, 'footprints', for the guiding-marks which they hoped to leave for posterity.  The best test of the value of work, they believed, is that it continues to please or impress future ages.  Bertrand Russell once recounted to G. H. Hardy a distressing dream in which he stood among the book stacks of Cambridge University two centuries in the future.  A librarian was winnowing the shelves, taking down books in turn, glancing at them, restoring them to their places or dumping them into an enormous bucket.  Finally, he reached three volumes which Russell recognized as the last surviving copy of his Principia Mathematica.  He took down one of the volumes, turned over a few pages, seemed puzzled by what he saw, shut the volume, balanced it in his hand and hesitated: Russell presumably awoke with a shuddering cry, for the devaluation of their work, or the absence of footprints, was the Apostles' nightmare."
-  Richard Davenport-Hines, Universal Man: The Lives of John Maynard Keynes, 2015, p.52 

“I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own nonsense.”
-  Elizabeth Gilbert

“I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.”
-  William C. Hanna

“Change can be hard. It requires no extra effort to settle for the same old thing. Auto-pilot keeps us locked into past patterns. But transforming your life? That requires courage, commitment, and effort. It’s tempting to stay camped in the zone of That’s-Just-How-It-Is. But to get to the really good stuff in life, you have to be willing to become an explorer and adventurer.”
-  John Mark Green

“Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom.”
-  John Mark Green

“Personal transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world, for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one.”
-  Marianne Williamson

“If you want to be great and successful, choose people who are great and successful and walk side by side with them.”
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You and I possess within ourselves at every moment of our lives, under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives.”
- Werner Erhard

“Everything you seek is inside of you.”
-  Joey Klein

"Nothing happens until the pain of remaining the same outweighs the pain of change.”
-  Arthur Burt

“You have to love yourself enough to set a standard for your life that you’re unwilling to compromise. If you accept the standards of others for your life you’ll never be happy.”
-  Tony Gaskins

“Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.”
-  Rick Warren

“You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.”
-  Jeff Weiner

 

Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions  By John C. Norcross.  Contributors: Kristin Loberg and Jonathon Norcross.  Simon and Schuster, 2012.  272 pages.  ISBN: 978-1451657616.  VSCL. 

Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward
By James O. Prochaska, John Norcorss, and Carlo DiClemente.  William Morrow, 1995.  304 pages.  ISBN: 9780380725724. 

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard  By Chip Heath and Dean Heath.  Crown Business, 2010.  320 pages.  ISBN: 978-0385528757. 

Rewire: Change Your Brain to Break Bad Habits, Overcome Additions, and Conquer Self-Destructive Behavior.  By Richard O'Connor, Ph.D..  New York, Hudson Street Press, c 2014.  Index, references, notes, 289 pages.  ISBN: 9781594632563. 

 

 

                           

 

 

 

"Manage your pleasures and desires.
Be open to thinking and feeling in new ways.
Sometimes ignore what other people tell you to do or not to do.
Old values are not necessarily better values.
What is "bad" in one generation may be "good" in later times.
Enjoy the pleasure of eating apples.
When someone tells you not to ask, sometimes ask and ask again.
Text, try, experiment - within reason.
With only one life to live - be bolder.
Don't resist the temptation to improve, to change, to grow.
Like water, enjoy going downhill in new directions.
Embrace intellectual pleasures.
Be suspicious of people who talk too much about guilt and punishment.
Some failures are inevitable, just get up and move on.  
Thinking and doing are often more advantageous than believing.  
Many people associate sexual pleasure with 'sinfulness': nonsense.
Succumb to temptations to laugh more often.  
If you can't take advantage of temptations then your not free.  
Remember what works for you.  
Have to courage to follow some temptations.
- Mike Garofalo, Pulling Onions
 

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