The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. read more

The most powerful agent of growth and transformation is something much more basic than any technique: a change of heart. . -John Welwood.

Still ending, and beginning still.

Still ending, and beginning still.

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]

Longing not so much to change things as to overturn them.
[Lat., Non tam commutandarum, quam evertendarum rerum cupidi.]

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present read more

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing read more

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say
a year hence, but read more

Can any one find in what condition his body will be, I do not say
a year hence, but this evening?
[Lat., An id exploratum cuiquam potest esse, quomodo sese
habitarum sit corpus, non dico ad annum sed ad vesperam?]

Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, read more

Whose foot is on the treadle/That turns the burning stars/Has spun the world half way round/Since last I called/Come down, come down.
That stars that in September/Looked through the mournful rain/Now set their sight again/Upon a world half night, half light
Men of distant years have said/That much depends on change of seasons/On solstices and equinox/And they have given reasons.
I disagree./Too much turns on inadvertence/On what seems to be/An accident of hand and knee/A chance sunrise/A glance of eyes.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, read more

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.