The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual reality" we experience. Such 'knowledge' is so thoroughly a part of our worldview that it simply would not occur to most people to question it. Yet underneath this reality is another, subinstitutional reality in which very different responses are simply acted out. This is the reality in which everyone, until very recently, lived. -David Schwartz.
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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.
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't read more
I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may ;consider himself a failure, I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire, he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within.
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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus.
Nothing endures but change. -Heraclitus.
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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.
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change.
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
Change starts when someone sees the next step.
