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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.
The shape of our lives is defined by our insertion into institutions and systems whose interlocking power generates the "virtual read more
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.
I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.
[Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je read more
I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.
[Fr., J'avais vu les grands, mais je n'avais pas vu les petits.]
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered read more
We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while read more
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine.
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own read more
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.