transformation – What’s here now?

There is darkness inside all of us. Unrecognised and unacknowledged it festers and transforms only to emerge in disguise, often as virtue.

Judging others from a distance is easy, lazy and more often than not, diminishes the self, all the while hiding behind a wall of self righteousness.

Understanding others does not mean agreeing with them. It is an underused facet of our imaginative powers to inhabit the worlds of other people. To walk their streets and share their spaces is to do a service to ourselves and others.

The more we all experience about each other the more we all learn, grow and become less defensive and ultimately able to disagree with each other in a way that doesn’t tear each other apart.

…even in your own hidden life, you can become a powerful agent of transformation in a broken, darkened world. There is a huge force field that opens when intention focuses and directs itself toward transformation.

— John O’Donohue

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

— Leo Tolstoy

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

— Ellen Goodman

Life can break us but in doing so it makes us.