Bring everything up to the surface. Accept your humanity, your animality. Whatsoever is there, accept it without any condemnation. Acceptance is transformation, because through acceptance awareness becomes possible.
--Osho
Transformation is not about rising above or transcending, it's about moving through what is and a lot of what isn't pleasant.
It is not a simple process, nor a short or easy one. A mind lost in vague and diffuse state cannot be a searchlight, and therefore is unable to see the hidden contents clearly enough to acquire full knowledge about them.
Spiritual transformation has to do with actualizing potential.
It means learning to make your inner understanding the source of your external actions in the world.
The road calls you forth, and forth you must go, for the path will end only when you have found the answer to question, "Who am I?"