In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
Unless there's a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.
Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition.
Without deep personal transformation, collective transformation is not possible.
The beginning of personal transformation is absurdly easy. We have only to pay attention to the flow of attention itself.
It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.
Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.
You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul.
Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.