“We’re often wrong at predicting what will transform us. Encountering certain people, books, music, places or ideas at the right time can immediately make our lives happier, richer, more beautiful, resonant or meaningful. When it happens, we feel a kind of instant love for them both deep and abiding. It can be something as trifling as a children’s book, a returned telephone call, or a night at a seaside bar in Greece.”
— Jonathan Carroll
Around our house we throw the word transformative around quite a bit (sometimes it bounces off of walls and smashes china). We talk about books, plays, talks and conversations with people as transformative experiences. What part of us changes? Perhaps its just the part that hears a new point of view for a first time, that sees something in a way that we haven’t before. On occasion, the transformation is a bit more radical. We see something that changes our approach with how we deal with our lives, our jobs or our family. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus suggested that we cannot step in the same river twice because both we and the river are continuously made different by whatever we experience. I hope that I always be open to being transformed by my surroundings rather than clinging like a barnacle on a rock in said river afraid to flow with the changes and I wish happy transformative experiences for all.
Blessings, G
Yes, which is why every now and again, I try to rifle through all of my old ways of looking at things and see either how they have evolved or whether they still fit the man reflecting in the present. :)Thank you.
A Heroic Fantasy by G A Rosenberg
Every day transforms us, either through new knowledge and experience, or a new understanding of an old idea.
Yes, which is why every now and again, I try to rifle through all of my old ways of looking at things and see either how they have evolved or whether they still fit the man reflecting in the present. :)Thank you.