“We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it? What does nature hold dearer or more proper to herself? Could you have a hot bath unless the firewood underwent some change? Could you be nourished if the food suffered no change? Is it possible for any useful thing to be achieved without change?”
–Emperor Marcus Aurelius
If our change is shrinking, our growth is shrinking…and if our growth is shrinking so is our value and our ability to contribute to a future that is requiring more change than ever before. Whenever I think about change …I always remember the ‘too many encounters’ I have had with people who don’t have any change of their own …and so they are asking for some of mine. I am happy to share my spare change, but I might as well be giving them a fish because when the change I give them is gone they will need some more. What we must learn to do for ourselves is ‘make the change’ or as Gandhi taught, “be the change”… then we can achieve the useful things spoke of by Emperor Aurelius.
I hope we all have plenty of change for ourselves and to share with others as well.
Kirk out
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