We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to read more

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't, it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. -Jessamyn West.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it read more

If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue.
[Fr., On commence par etre dupe,
On read more

We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue.
[Fr., On commence par etre dupe,
On finit par etre fripon.]

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.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

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.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. read more

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. Andrea Ayvazian -Robert Frost (1874-1963).

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.