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Quotes about Change

Nothing has to be changed, because all is beautiful -- that is enlightenment. All is as it should be, everything is perfect. This is the most perfect world, this moment lacks nothing -- the experience of this is what enlightenment is.

Osho : Gaia Explorer
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This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the world changes totally. It is no more the ordinary world you have known before. In fact, you have not known it at all. Your mind was distorting everything, your mind was creating fantasies. Your eyes were full of fantasies and you were looking though those fantasies. They never allowed you to see that which is. If the mind is gone, even for a moment, suddenly the whole existence explodes upon you.

Osho : Gaia Explorer
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Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee : Gaia Explorer
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Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for the person whose mind is open to contradictions and well-practiced in free conjecture.

Robert Grudin : Gaia Explorer
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Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

Mignon McLaughlin
Source: The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Despite our differences, we are all in this together. No act of kindness or compassion goes unnoticed. To change the world, take compassionate action within your immediate sphere of influence. To change yourself, start by being still and making time just to listen.

Edmund Bourne
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It may seem hard to extend our gratefulness and appreciation to the time in which we live and the challenges it presents-to financial crisis, global climate change, terrorism, wars, energy depletion, and any other disasters looming on the horizon.  It would be much easier to appreciate an era of good feeling, peace and calm stability!  But difficult times are also times of growth, of new insights and opportunities, of creativity, and of emergence.

David Spangler
Source: David's Desk #18, Surviving Hard Times
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That morning I experienced vividly, if almost subliminally, the reality of change itself: how it fools our sentinels and undermines our defenses, how careful we are to look for it in the wrong places, how it does not reveal itself until it is beyond redress, how vainly we search for it around us and find too late that is has occurred within us.

Robert Grudin : Gaia Explorer
Robert Grudin
Source: Time and the Art of Living, Page: 6
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.

Anthony De Mello : Gaia Explorer
Anthony De Mello
Source: Awareness
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As far as inner transformation is concerned, there is nothing you can do about it. You cannot transform yourself, and you certainly cannot transform your partner or anybody else. All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

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Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience. Taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them.

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The light of consciousness has no mind to change or alter anything. There is no sense that anything needs to change, but it does change.

Adyashanti : Gaia Explorer
Adyashanti
Source: Emptiness Dancing, Page: 31
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If we can recognize that change and uncertainty are basic principles, we can greet the future and the transformation we are undergoing with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic.

Hazel Henderson
 
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If you want love, act lovingly; if you want justice, do justly. This is the wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi: be the change you want to see, not the New Age nonsense of Rhonda Byrne: see the change you want to be.

Rabbi Rami Shapiro
Source: Spirituality and Health - What Do You Think of THE SECRET? - http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/NMagazine/articles.php?id=1760
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To attain peace among the nations in any dynamic or enduring form requires not simply political negotiation but a new mode of consciousness. The magnitude of this change is in the order of religious conversion or of spiritual rebirth rather than of treaty processes or even of inter-cultural understanding. Simply to recognize the basic nature and dimension of the issues we face is already an advance. But if a peaceful world is beyond politics it is also beyond religions as these presently exist. A change is needed in every phase of human life. This lies mainly in recognition that the micro phase, the particular or national traditions, must find their context and fulfillment in the macro phase, the global or panhuman phase of human existence. The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular traditions will find both support and fulfillment in a functional global community.

Thomas Berry : Gaia Explorer
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A person will remain the same until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain of change.

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Source: Unknown
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Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.

Glenda Cloud
 
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If we can transform ourselves, we have the potential to change the world.

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
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If we are to contribute to the changes so desperately needed in our agencies, communities, and societies, we must first and foremost develop the capacity to be present with all that arises, stay centered throughout, and be skilled at maintaining an integrated self.

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
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Remember that nothing has to change in the world for us to transform our own life experience.

Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
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The presence of advanced attention is the only thing that really changes us, and the benefits of receiving it are always extraordinary.

Paul Richards : Gaia Child
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The hallmark of power is the capacity in those who weild it to specify a change and then bring it about, by whatever means.

Paul Richards : Gaia Child
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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become.  There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.  Or you don't.

Stephen King : American novelist, short-story writer, author of horror books
Stephen King (1947 - )
Source: The Stand
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Faith is harder to shake than knowledge, love succumbs less to change than respect, hate is more enduring than aversion, and the impetus to the mightiest upheavals on this earth has at all times consisted less in a scientific knowledge dominating the masses than in a fanaticism which inspired them and sometimes in a hysteria which drove them forward.

Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
Source: Mein Kampf
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Growth requires change,
and with growth there is pain,
but it is short lived compared
to living every day
with the pain of ignorance.

Marianne Goldweber

Marianne : Spiritual Warrior on the Good Red Road
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#1 Never Get Used to Anything.

Ruth Bernhard
Source: Recipe for a Long and Happy Life
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Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: The Dhammapada By Friedrich Max Müller, Viggo Fausbøll, P. 23, v. 80
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Glory be to God for dappled things—    
  For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;    
    For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;    
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;    
  Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
    And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.    
 
All things counter, original, spare, strange;    
  Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)    
    With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;    
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
                  Praise him.

Gerald Manley Hopkins
 
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Dear Gorgeous Genius...

Your holiest pain comes from your yearning to change yourself in the exact way you'd like the world around you to change....

Your sweet spot is in between the true believers and the scoffing skeptics....

Rob Brezsny : Gaia Explorer
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