#con

Before the house you live in was built, there was an empty space, before the tree could provide shade to you, the tree was just a seed, before you were born, part of you existed within two separate people, and when you die, the house, the tree and your body will cease to exist as your mind perceives them today. Be free from the illusion of ownership over, this and that; Wake up, and embrace a reality of constant change, go with the flow, and enjoy the ride, be free today! ↗

— Martin Suarez

#change #clinging #contentment #control #change

The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords. ↗

— James J. Gibson

#consists #meaning #thing #value

If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#change #change-your-life #convert #repentance #richelle

Live to learn to love. Learn to love to live. Love to live to learn so that you may live the life that you yearn. ↗

— Rico Dasheem

#awareness #body #conciousness #edifiy #mind

To say, “I’ve been converted and that’s that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die. ↗

— Steve Goodier

#commitment #conversion #grow #growth #personal-development

The laws you see today are a direct consequence of economic illiteracy in the general population. If every voter learned economics tonight, the laws would change tomorrow. ↗

— Ben Mathew

#change

The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance is found in people who, if confronted with certain truths realize that they have to accept them and thereby acknowledge evil, and that scares them. Opening up and letting the truth in might knock them off their perceived center. It is too hard, period." (VOTF - Voice of the Faithful - a Catholic group that wants to change the Church, keep the faith.) ↗

— Charles L. Bailey Jr.

#catholic #church #confronted #disbelief #evil

The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#reconciliation #communication

All the arguing in the world won't change the mind of the Umpire. ↗

— Pride of the Yankees

#sovereignty-of-god #change

I consider conversations with people to be mind exercises, but I don't want to pull a muscle, so I stretch a lot. That's why I'm constantly either rolling my eyes or yawning. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#communication #conversations #funny #humor #mind