Matt Stone Quotes

Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks - on your body or on your heart - are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

It’s not what you do – it’s what you are becoming.

True progress comes not through action, but through awakening.

You take a step, then another. That's the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it's a remaking of your own mind.

If you knew me in the past, please do not think that I am the same person that you are meeting today. I have experienced more of life, I have encountered new depths in those I love, I have suffered and prayed and I am different.

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

There has already been the karmic work: that what life has transformed in me, this initiation brought on, of necessity, by trials.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.

Eventually, I joined a church. I didn't go there to find a boyfriend; I truly wasn't looking for anyone other than the person I wanted to be.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

The spirituality of the dance, that's something that's evolved for me in the past ten years or so. I'm still trying to figure out where that's taking me.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

The block of marble is not the sculptor, and doesn't see that he's about to become a masterpiece... We're the block of marble and God is the sculptor, and the chisel is.... everything.

Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?