Personal transformation is a shift in the way you perceive yourself, which leads to a shift in seeing how our world works. Personal transformation is sometimes called personal development, personal growth or spiritual transformation. Personal transformation looks different for everyone. Everyone grows at their own speed, and when we support each other; the process always goes smoother.

Here is a collection of wisdom from great people from around the world, that can inspire you to spark your own personal transformation…

 

“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.”  

? Rumi

“There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather, or ten minutes of plowing. 

So you watch yourself about complaining.  What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” 

? Maya Angelou

 

“Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.” 

-Unknown

 

“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

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

-Joseph Campbell

 

“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

 

“You can’t have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.”

-Cory Booker

 

“Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.”

-Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

 

“We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We’re meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.”

-Yehuda Berg

 

“In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.”

-Stanislav Grof

 

“When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.”

-Suze Orman

“We can see the Divine in each speck of dust, but that doesn’t stop us from wiping it away with a wet sponge. The Divine doesn’t disappear; it’s transformed into the clean surface.” 

? Paulo Coelho

 

“To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness.”

-Unknown 

 

“Love the world as you love yourself.”

-Lao Tzu

 

“The next step in man’s evolution will be the survival of the wisest.” 

? Deepak Chopra

 

 

By: Naveen Kumar