The problem: Revolutions use the voice of the people to replace one tyranny with another.
Rosa Luxembourg says the revolution is shaped by listening, not insisting. You must serve the revolution, not yourself, Lenin.
Tag: change
- Theme: Self
A better revolution
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1–2 minutes - Theme: Growth
Change as Cruelty
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1–2 minutesFor children change and play are simply life. As we age we become fixed and brittle, and change begins to appear as cruelty.
- Theme: Growth
No Virtue in Consistency
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1–2 minutesSelf Creation: the path of fixation leads to death, the path of fluidity leads to life.
There is no virtue in consistency if it prevents growth or change.
To prevent the death of "one’s self" is exactly what kills us: the inability to grow and transform.
- Theme: Systems
The fundamental contradiction
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1–2 minutesWe want people to change so the world will be better and easier. Yet we seldom follow the adage: “In order to change the world, you must first change yourself.”
In the only realm we could possibly hope to have influence or a modicum of control, we do nothing, yet we continue to cry out for change.
- Theme: Growth
For Progress Revert
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1–2 minutesTo progress we can revert. This seems contradictory: to move into the future by embodying our past self rather than attempting to become something new.
Yet, often there is a conceit in novelty that side-tracks us for decades, while a reversion to core alignment is more beneficial than continual wandering. - Theme: Growth
Winging it
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1–2 minutesYou can wing it and claim success, because you forgave yourself in advance.
This is how we start most things, but it is not your best: you prioritize "good enough" in the moment over considered preparation. - Theme: Self
It really is the small things
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1–2 minutesThe idiotic little chores are tiny burdens, so miniscule as to be nearly invisible. And so we succumb to their inevitability, writing off that portion of our life.
To have even one of these simple things lifted, our gratitude is immense and out-of-proportion, but every day will now be easier because of someone else’s thoughtfulness. - Theme: Self
Know the world before you try to change it
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1–2 minutesIf you don’t know what reality is, how can you fix the world?
Gandhi says "Change yourself before changing the world," but you can change into a more deluded person if you do not see the world clearly first. - Theme: Self
Empathy transforms individuals into us
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1–2 minutesComforting a hurting friend hurts, because we support (share and enable) their emotions to support them.
Empathy is taking on their hurt. We lose ourselves for solidarity, in order to pull them from solitude, transforming the distinct people into “us.”