Music can change the world.
Security can only be achieved through constant change, through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
I also believe that if we're serious about change, we need to have a real discussion about public financing for congressional elections.
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the response.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.
In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place of souls… generations that know us not and that we know not of, heart-drawn to see where and by whom great things were suffered and done for them, shall come to this deathless field, to ponder and dream; and lo! the shadow of a mighty presence shall wrap them in its bosom, and the power of the vision pass into their souls.
Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
When you have a thought that is not in alignment with your highest vision change to a new thought! Then and there. When you say a thing that is our of alignment with your grandest idea, make a note not to say something like that again. When you do a thing that is misaligned with your best intention, decide to make that the last time. And make it right with whomever was involved if you can.
I wonder who really is the change candidate? It can't be both of them [Hillary Clinton & Barak Obama]. What would be a black man and a woman - how could that be different than the 43 other Presidents we've had?
True encounter with Christ liberates something within us, a power we did not know we had, a capacity to grow and change.
If you love someone, why would you want that person to change?
Use almost can change the stamp of nature.
Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was going. Then the image would change and it wouldn't be me, just some nebulous shadow person.
In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.
I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find it always wants to enlarge itself, employ more people, is very busy with Senators and Congressmen to impress upon them the great value of the services of the commission, and even when I talk to people that I appoint to commissions and tell them I would like them to go on to various boards with the idea that they may be abolished, they say they ought to be abolished, but when they have taken their position they very soon seem to change their mind.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
A changeable God would be no God.
