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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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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.
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is read more
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination. -John Schaar.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, read more
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
