Mark Fisher

When The Fall pummeled their way into my nervous system, circa 1983, it was as if a world that was familiar - and which I had thought too familiar, too quotidian to feature in rock - had returned, expressionistically transfigured, permanently altered.

British Writer

Edward McKendree Bounds

The houses of Heaven are God-built and are as enduring and incorruptible as their builder. We will have bodies after the resurrection; transfigured they will be after the model of Christ's glorious body.

American Author

Joy Williams

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

American Writer

John Henry Newman

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

British Clergyman

John Drinkwater

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

English Poet

Friedrich Nietzsche

Sing me a new song; the world is transfigured; all the Heavens are rejoicing.

German Philosopher

Used when something ordinary becomes extraordinarily beautiful or impressive.

Beauty Transformation

Implies a significant or complete change in appearance or form.

Dramatic Change

May also refer to the transformation of ideas or impressions.

Beyond Physical

Used to describe a spiritual or divine transformation, not just a physical one.

Sacred Change

Especially relevant when discussing stories from religious scriptures.

Religious Texts

In old texts, it carries heavy connotations of morality and holiness.

Historical Context

 This was far from the first time he’d defied destiny in his quest for wisdom and power. His past rebellions had earned him the power to transfigure his body, ride clouds at dizzying speeds, and govern his tribe with magic and martial arts. In this crisis, he saw yet another opportunity. With a flash of his nimble fingers,

How the Monkey King...

 that puts the fire into the equations. On that view, consciousness doesn't dangle outside the physical world as some kind of extra. It's there right at its heart. This view, I think, the panpsychist view, has the potential to transfigure our relationship

Transfigure