CLEAR ALL
Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.
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Why are angry women so threatening to others? If we are guilty, depressed, or self-doubting, we stay in place. We do not take action except against our own selves and we are unlikely to be agents of personal and social change. In contrast, angry women may change and challenge the lives of us all.
This is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs.
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.
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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.
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How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.