Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever.
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
William Burroughs (via oceanofmind)
Amen Brother Burroughs, Amen.
Things do not change; we change.
“Habits” by Darren Hardy « Conceive! Believe! Achieve!
Great article on habits and how they shape our lives. Excerpt:
“If you’ve been living on autopilot and allowing your habits to run you, I want you to understand why. And I want you to let yourself off the hook. After all, you’re in good company. Psychological studies reveal that 95 percent of everything we feel, think, do and achieve is a result of a learned habit! We’re born with instincts, of course, but no habits at all. We develop them over time. Beginning in childhood, we learned a series of conditioned responses that led us to react automatically (as in, without thinking) to most situations….”
Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.
There is no condition that you cannot change, except one indisputably physically accepted at birth within the realms of creature hood, such as a liability in terms of a missing organ, or a functional lack.
You are given the gift of the gods; you create your reality according to your beliefs; yours is the creative energy that makes your world; there are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.
