By Jan Willis — 2019
To change the world, says Jan Willis, we need hope. And hope grows from nonviolent actions, no matter how small.
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"Most of us want to change the world, but only a few of us are willing to change our own minds!" Yet there is a shift taking place in the world, where more and more people are recognizing that it is our own thoughts and attitudes that determine how we look at the world and, ultimately, what...
In Sufi teaching the human heart is not a fanciful metaphor but an objective organ of intuition and perception. It perceives all that is beautiful, lovely, and meaningful in life—and reflects these spiritual qualities in the world, for the benefit of others.
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Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed by a slight decline to a plateau somewhat higher in most cases than that which preceded it . . . the upward spurts vary; the plateaus have their own dips and rises along the way. . . .
Ultimately, nothing in this life is ‘commonplace,’ nothing is ‘in between.’ The threads that join your every act, your every thought, are infinite. All paths of mastery eventually merge. [Each person has a] vantage point that offers a truth of its own.
Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.
You are haunted by a specter, the grand finale of the world as we have known it, yet know yourselves to be people of the parenthesis, living at the end of one era, but not quite at the beginning of the new one.