People change based on what they feel, not what they know. Which means that understanding all that advice doesn't matter if there's no deep, profound, visceral awareness of why it's important.
To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.
Change happens not by trying to make yourself change, but by becoming conscious of what's not working.
You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
The prophets preach . . . that pleasure, not will-power and coercion, is how you most deeply transform people.
The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?
It is a further boast that a regular mode of making proper alterations has been providently inserted into the Constitution itself.
of the American form of government
