“Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.” ~Sri Chinmoy
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Change Happens One Human Being at a Time
Copyright 2018 by R.A. Robbins
“Our world will never be changed until individuals have changed, and individuals will never change until religion as inner transformation has penetrated to the hearts of their beings and made them into new persons. Change happens one human being at a time. It is your transformation, my transformation, that will make a difference in this wondrous but troubled world of ours, as we become who we truly are.”
― Yeshua the Cosmic Mystic: Beyond Religion to Universal Truth
Growth, Reform and Change
“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. “ — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
To Exist is to Change
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” — Henri Bergson
The Only Way to Make Sense out of Change
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and enjoy the dance.” — Alan Watts
Change is Difficult but…
“Change is difficult, but it can be managed when you stay aware of the power of your choices, even if it’s simply your attitude.”
― Michael Thomas Sunnarborg, The White Box Club Handbook: Simple Tools For Career Transition
God, Grant Me…
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. — Reinhold Niebuhr
The Best Part
“The best part of your story is when it changes.”
― Bella Bloom
To Everything There is a Season…
You may be familiar with these words from the beautiful poetry of the third chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. Or perhaps you are more familiar with the musical setting by Pete Seegar known as Turn, Turn, Turn or popular renditions by Judy Collins or The Byrds.
These are words people turn to for comfort in times of change. This is a Scripture that is often read at funerals. So why do we find these words so comforting and reassuring? I believe it is because they speak to us of Divine Order. They remind us that life does have “seasons” that come and go, but the world keeps turning and life goes on. To everything there is a season…
Breaking Open
“How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow