Change

There is nothing permanent except change.

-May Be Shakyamuni (Gautama Buddha) or Heraclitus

Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/2099565-heraclitus-there-is-nothing-permanent-except-change/

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

-Albert Einstein

There are some things even a warlock as great as you can not overcome. I am old Emeriss. My time has almost come. It is the cycle of life. No more, no less.

-The Dragon, Merlin, Season 5, Episode 11

Merlin: Everything I was trying to stop, has happened.

Gaius: There are some parts woven so deeply into the fabric of the world Merlin, that there is nothing that can be done to change them.

-Merlin, Season 5, Episode 11

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

-Socrates

A fallen blossom does not return to it's branch.

-Basilisk Season 1 - Episode: Destiny

There is no death, only a change in worlds.

-Chief Seattle

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.

-Gene Roddenberry

What you allow, is what will continue.

-Unknown

In every revolution, there is one man with a vision.

-Kirk, Star Trek Original Series, Mirror Mirror

You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

-Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

-Theodore Roosevelt

One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it’s guilt, anger, love, loss or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold and we fight to let go.

-Unknown

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we’ve already achieved them.”

-Denis Waitley

...a person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

-Duke Leto Atreides to his son Paul, The movie Dune

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

-Herman Hesse

Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you are not going to realize your potential.

-Joseph Campbell

One reason people resist change is because they focus on what they have to give up instead of what they have to gain.

-Rick Godwin

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

-Joseph Campbell

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.

-Terence McKenna

What is with this sudden need to be motivated? If you ask me, this country could do with a little less motivation.

-George Carlin

I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

-Lillian Smith

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

-Albert Einstein

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even If I didn't have it in the beginning.

-Mahatma Ghandi, सत्य के प्रयोग अथवा आत्मकथा

True change is within; leave the outside as it is.

-Dalai Lama

People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world.

-Michael Josephson

Khajiit Rogue: "You carry an aura of confusion and despair. Tell this one, what did you see?"

Elf Sorceress: "I saw a familiar place, covered in strange shadows. Shadows that are in plain view, but hidden, waiting to pounce on fear. Crawling silently among us, releasing poisons of deceit and hatred. Shadows that saw and grow in power, as chaos unfolds and consumes the world.

Khajiit Rogue: "How did this vision of yours end?"

Elf Sorceress: "I died. All was lost."

Khajiit Rogue: "The worst nightmares haunt us where we feel safest, at home."

-ESO Summerset Trailer, 2018, https://youtu.be/CnpTgepe1tA

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

-Abraham H. Maslow

Do not give in to the despair. Despair is the lie. It’s trying to obscure the rage. Rage, anger, fury and a commitment to tear down the bigotry, the misogyny and the violence that rules our society must be what this nation hears loud and clear tomorrow. This is it. I’ve had it. You’ve had it. November 6th is the purge. Be there.

-Michael Moore, 2018

Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying 'And then I shall have wings and antennae,' there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

-Alejandro Jodorowsky

Be miserable, or motivate yourself.

Whatever had to be done, it's always your choice.

-Wayne Dyer

Whoever is reading this, I understand how rough things are right now. I just want to let you know that things will get better, I promise. Keep holding on just a little bit longer. I know you feel like nobody really cares. You're wrong, stop denying it. I care, otherwise I wouldn't be writing this. You're not alone, we may be miles away but we're all going through the same things. Please keep holding on.

-Anonymous, Posted on Facebook

The only person you are destined to become is the person you've decided to be.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd rather regret the things I've done, than regret the things I haven't done.

-Lucille Ball

Symbols bring the spirit beyond the boundaries of the finished, of becoming, in the kingdom of being infinite. They give suggestions, they are signs of the ineffable and inexhaustible

-J. J. Bachofen

But you did everything you could, and when you could do no more , you made peace with your fate, and you didn't rail needlessly against it. That is wisdom, not weakness.

-Christopher Paolini

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

-Epictetus (Greek Stoic philosopher) 50-135 AD

Perhaps we, as a civilization and a species, are undergoing a rite of passage of the most epochal and profound kind, acted out on the stage of history with, as it were, the cosmos itself as the tribal matrix of the initiatory drama. What seems to be unfolding is not only a recovery of the soul of the world, the anima mundi, but a new relationship to it. Something new is being forged.

We all know how people who have a near death experience tend to come out of it with a rather radical change in their life philosophy. It has a more potent effect in five seconds, than almost anything else can have. But you can't have a "pretend" near death experience for it to have that kind of moral, spiritual and psychological transformation. You really have to feel that everything is at stake and the result is uncertain.

And that's just what we are experiencing today...on a collective scale.

Everything that Joseph Campbell described as the initiatory experience: the crisis of meaning, being isolated from the rest of the community, the sense of facing one's own mortality, the personal suffering, the deconstruction of the old identity, like an old self is dying - everything that I just described...is what's happening on the collective level to our human civilization.

Except now we are looking at planetary mortality rather than just an individual person's mortality. We are having to go through a dying of our whole identity as to who we are in relation to nature. Who we are relative to the cosmos... We're at a really dicey place [in history] right now, where the question is, will enough individuals go through this kind of profound, inner transformation and inner work...to be able to go through what is basically a symbolic, spiritual death? ...So that we don't have to do it literally.

We've already set in motion destructive forces. And some of those forces are already affecting the world and probably are going to continue. And the question is, will the kind of "near death experience" we are going through in slow motion right now, be sufficient to catalyze enough of a psycho-spiritual transformation, in enough people, that those people can serve as centers of insight and equilibrium, to inform the whole?

It doesn't take everybody to do this, but it takes enough people who are able - so that their sensibility, their transformation, can ripple out.

-Richard Tarnas

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that there is a lot of good for anybody in making almost any kind of art. Just as each of us benefits from physical exercise and meditation, even though we may not become professional athletes or enlightened yogis, making art is intensely cathartic and healing, and should be enjoyed by everyone, even those who don't think they will become the next T. S. Eliot or Picasso. The act of drawing or painting, writing poetry, dancing, or making music brings us into personal contact with the creative spirit, and that has inestimable value for enjoyment and self-discovery.

-Excerpt from "The Mission of Art," by Alex Grey, pg 28.

You are immortal; you've existed for billions of years in different manifestations, because you are life, and life cannot die. You are in the trees, the butterflies, the fish, the air, the moon, the sun. Wherever you go, you are there, waiting for yourself.

-Don Miguel Ruiz

Loss of life is to be mourned, but only if the life was wasted.

-Spock, Yesteryear, TAS episode, 1973

There is hope. I have seen it. But it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

-Greta Thunberg

I keep asking myself these three questions:

What do you have?

What do you want?

What will you give up?

Jack Ma, conference hall in Bali, Indonesia

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice...

-Martin Luther King

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

- Rumi

Ang: You have finally connected with your spiritual self.

Kora: How?

Ang: When we hit our lowest point, we are open to the greatest change.

-The Legend Of Kora, Season 1, Episode 12

I don't knock my country for what it is- I knock it because I share the dream of so many of us as to what it might be and what it can be.

-Rod Serling 1970

Now is no time to think of what you do not have.

Think of what you can do with that there is.

-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

-Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1964

Plan and prepare for every possibility and you will never act,

it is nobler to have courage as we stumble into half the things we fear,

than to analyze every possible obstacle and begin nothing.

Great things are achieved by embracing great dangers.

-quote attributed to Xerxes, Persia's King of Kings from Herodotus' "Histories."

lazarus

Everyone is so mystical,

I haven’t got the first idea

How to disengage from

The suicide-run of this

Bullshit frontal attack

Of brainless skepticism;

I barely comprehend the logic

Of American political adulteries,

But I’ve got notions about it,

Like how I’m going to escape

Without being seen,

And take all the toxic

Pseudo rainbow theories

And the eclectic trickle down

Humdingers of vodka breath

Inspired ancient alien TV

And shove ‘em up the ass

Of the first loudmouth

Centurion that tries to

Gaslight me into thinking

I didn’t see what I know I saw;

Those fuckers with their

High falutin chakra talk

And good energy blather

And their energy healing

And their bad energy lies,

White-robed

Starry-eyed con artists.

Maybe if I eat differently

I won’t be so belligerent,

But I doubt anything I do matters,

And as I walk the streets,

Wearing my mask,

And my worthless pieces

Of expensive silken rubbish,

I think of all the epic blackouts

And the time I was dead

For like four days,

Damn those were rough times,

But maybe I’m just hella horny,

I mean I think about concubines

For fuck sake, like I want like

Ten of ‘em, but I think you gotta

Be a pharaoh or something,

At least a dude with more cash

Than what I got,

So maybe I’ll just grab a six pack

And cruise down sunset blvd

And dream and get a toasty

Beer drunk on and maybe

I’ll just keep going

All the way to Bakersfield.

It feels like I’m just sitting around

But I can feel something

Weird happening,

I’m not sure but I think

I may me turning into rain,

A billion broken particles

Of liquid crystal,

Like I’m being like water

Like Bruce Lee said,

All droplified and misty,

Enfolding everyone

And everything I see with

The ancient love of a past life

Passion play of resurrected

Oceanic intellect,

A river of being, at once both

Moving and completely still,

Like how you feel

When you’re dying,

A beautiful letting go

Of everything you think

Is so real, a non-existent

Gravity, pulling you back

To your magnetic universe,

Personal and anonymous,

All knowing and quiet.

Yet the stars get brighter,

But our souls are like clay,

And suddenly I no longer

Want all the glittery things,

I just want to lay here,

On my rocky slab,

In the cool stillness of heaven,

And it’s not what I thought,

Not the folkloric quaintness

Of my younger musings,

An unknown loop

Of consciousness,

Made clear and obvious,

Like you can breathe finally,

The blissful end of procreation,

No chasing, no wanting,

I can grow my beard

And look like shit,

Ah the joy of looking like shit,

But even now there’s a voice,

Calling to me to return,

Who is it, what do you want?

The stone is rolling back.

The time is at hand,

Again.

-Bruce Fisher, Facebook Post, Beat Poems on the Road Group, 1/10/2021

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it — don't cheat with it.

-Ernest Hemingway

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

-Marcus Aurelius

Everything is changing,things arise and pass away. The one who realizes this is freed from sorrow.

-The Buddha

From where does creativity spring?

In my experience: drugs, alcohol and chaos.

In any case: order, sameness, habit and conformity have, since the beginning of time, created but one thing:

Suffering.

-John Mcafee, RIP to a true outlaw

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go an do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

-Harold Whitman

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck. When we hang onto any form we are in danger of putrefaction.

Hell is life drying up.

The Hoarder, the one in us that wants to keep, to hold on, must be killed.

If we are hanging onto the form now, we’re not going to have the form next.

You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Destruction before creation.

-Joseph Campbell

Most human beings spend 50 to 90 percent or more of their time in their imagination, living in fantasy. We think about what has happened to us, what might have happened, how we feel about it, how we should be different, how others should be different, how it's all a shame, and on and on; it's all fantasy, all imagination. Memory is imagination. Every memory that we stick to devastates our life.

-Charlotte Joko Beck, American Zen teacher and the author of the books Everyday Zen: Love and Work and Nothing Special: Living Zen.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

-Bruce Lee, Be Like Water

Bind yourself to nothing. Seek harmony with all. Then you will truly be free.

-Master Po, Kung Fu TV Series, #26 "The Elixir"

-Rumi

The person who says it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.

-Chinese Proverb

If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.

-Miyamoto Musashi

...who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

-Hunter S. Thompson

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.

You feel it, don't you? "

-Rumi

Woman: "This isn't going anywhere"

Man: "What do you mean going anywhere? Where do we need to go? Everything is fine. I have a decent job. You have a good job. I've got my mates. You've got your friends. We have sex a couple of times a week. It's great."

Woman: "Yeah but it's not going anywhere. Like there is no movement. There's no ambition or growth."

Man: "Babe just chill. I don't know what you are talking about. Everything is fine. Don't disrupt a good thing."

Woman: Quietly withdraws internally with doubt.

---

The feminine drives a mutative pulse of the human species.

She is under constant pressure for things to grow, to move, to evolve.

She may not even know what she means completely by not going anywhere, just that there is an itch to be following some thread or trajectory that leads to.... More.

More experience. More love. More depth. More consciousness.

If a man does not understand how to meet this impulse...

... To both adapt to her mutative pressure and to create the structure for their forward momentum (often called "leading" in polarity speak, yet I believe this is an inaccurate representation of what is actually happening)...

... Then any woman who is awake to this spark of mutation in her will become dissatisfied, frustrated, resentful and bored.

Ultimately she will leave him or her spark will die.

Her desire to grow is natural, innate and beautiful.

The masculine wants peace.

Yet he does not truly find it in beer and video games and sports and fishing and golf (none of which are wrong).

He finds it through continuously refining, developing and sharpening his consciousness.

And there is no greater pressure that will propel him to his best self than her."

-Damien Bohler - The Anatomy Of Lovers

The older I get, the more I find that you can only live with those who free you, who love you with an affection that is as light to bear as it is strong to feel.

Today's life is too hard, too bitter, too anemic, for us to undergo new bondages, from whom we love [...]. This is how I am your friend, I love your happiness, your freedom, Your adventure in one word, and I would like to be for you the companion we are sure of, always.

-Albert Camus

Everything changes... Everything transforms. Nothing is permanent in this world. Everything starts and ends.

He who clings to a thing or a person will see it all change, grow old, decay, end or die. That way, whoever clings to one thing or person will suffer when everything changes, when everything passes, or when everyone dies. This one lives always unhappy, lamenting the inexorable transformations of existence.

No one should get attached to something or someone, because everything passes... and when things and people pass and go away, you will suffer for the loss, for the change, for the absence, for the aging, for the illness and for the death.

The path of the wise is to be free from everything... who is trapped, dies. Who is free from everything, does not suffer for the passage, for the changes, for the end and for the death. The sage is always free, spontaneous, natural and simple in everything. His religion is unconditional freedom.

Everything starts and ends. The human being is excited at the beginning... and unhappy when the end comes. Who is free from everything... is neither excited by the beginning nor depressed by the end. The sage expects nothing and therefore achieves everything. He accumulates nothing, and therefore nothing is lost. The sage takes nothing as his own, and therefore, everything belongs to him.

He is freed from everything...he walks free and carefree through the world. How wonderful it is to be able to walk around the world completely free and without any worries! The free man frees himself from all suffering, and thus becomes truly happy forever.

-Hugo Lapa

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

-Mark Twain

Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world.

All things break. And all things can be mended.

Not with time, as they say, but with intention.

So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, and unconditionally.

The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.”

-L.R. Knost

Eagles live 70 years, but at 40 they have to make a difficult decision, their talons become so long and flexible that they cannot hold the prey they feed on. The long and sharp beak curves too far on the chest and no longer it is useful Their wings are old and heavy, according to the large size of their feathers, and then flight becomes very difficult for them.

It has two alternatives: abandon itself and die, or face a painful process of renewal, which consists of flying to a nest in the mountains near a wall, because it is safe. The eagle starts hitting the wall with its beak with great force until it is pulled. Then it will wait for a new beak to grow, with which it will detach its old nails one by one. When the new claws begin to hatch, it will begin to pull out its worn feathers.

And after all those long and painful five months of wounds, scars and growth, he manages to make his famous flight of renewal, rebirth and celebration to live another thirty years ...

In our lives, in order to continue a victory streak, we often need to take shelter for a while and begin a process of renewal.

We must let go of habits, traditions and memories whose weight prevents us from moving forward. Only free from the past can we take advantage of the valuable result that a renewal always brings us.

Renewal within involves putting order in the mental world, removing memories of frustrating or painful events to remain only with the experience of what we have learned.

To put ourselves in order, to renew and escape, we must know ourselves, know who we are, what our potentialities are and where we want to go.

No need to adapt to the problem; there is a possibility to get rid of it. But the road is a bit difficult, the road is a challenge. It's your choice.

Let's follow the path of the eagles. Always up, always forward...

-Bodea Ovidiu Marius

I would rather adjust my life to your absence than adjust my boundaries to your disrespect.

-Unknown

Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.

-Hermann Hesse