When we really understand the fact of separate realities, we will stop spending so much time and energy trying to change the reality of others
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
Change the economic base and you will change human beings.
I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
Writing cant change the world overnight, but writing may have an enormous effect over time, over the long haul.
Then, we realize that the degraded cocoon we have been hiding in is revolting, and we want to turn up the lights as far as we can. In fact, we are not turning up the lights, but we are simply opening our eyes wider. We catch a certain kind of fever.
Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change other, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations.
What millennials really want from the church is not a change in style but a change in substance.
Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Conditions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.
We are the change we're waiting for.
Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.
You can't be a revolutionary, you can't want to change society if you don't love people, there's no point in it.
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
Phil [Wood] said to me in the car going back, he said, "Look man, you better know why you're playing this music. Because I've known too many who lived and died for it. And if you're not trying to change the world, I'm not interested. "
I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown.
Anyone who says there is not a change in weather patterns is denying reality.
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.