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

Group chanting and prayer is very powerful. It can bring important changes.

If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.

Ever afterward, though the dance of creation change around me in the hall of eternity, I shall be the same.

Common sense is the fundamental factor in all spiritual disciplines. No rule is an eternal rule. Rules change from place to place, time to time and from one condition to another condition.

Ordinary love is selfish, darkly rooted in desires and satisfactions. Divine love is without condition, without boundary, without change. The flux of the human heart is gone forever at the transfixing touch of pure love.

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

On my knees, I beg of you to turn away from the paths of violence and to return to the path of peace. Those who resort to violence always claim that only violence brings about change. You must know there is a political, peaceful way to justice.

The world knows a caterpillar becomes a butterfly but they don’t care that it also becomes a moth. One is diurnal, another nocturnal. Human once awakened can change the view to change self from Angulimala to a Buddha.

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.

Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.

Times will change for the better when you change.

It's hard enough to change ourselves. We can't expect other people to change so that we feel better. We have to take the journey ourselves.

That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

Learning is the first step in making positive changes within yourself. Other factors are conviction, determination, action & effort. Learning & education help develop conviction about the need to change & increase your commitment. Conviction then develops into determination. Next, strong determination leads to action: a sustained effort to implement the changes. This final factor of effort is critical.

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

Change can only be in the limited.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

You see that who you are isn't moving in time. Time is describing the incarnations, the packing changes.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change.

When you make a choice, you change the future.