Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, And Awakeners Navigate Change Quotes
A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.
Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.
Loss is an inevitable part of change.
Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line.
Every journey towards change begins with awareness.
The natural world is built upon common motifs and patterns. Recognizing patterns in nature creates a map for locating yourself in change, and anticipation what is yet to come.
Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.
The nature of Nature is change.
Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.
In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.
Community is a context and can either facilitate or inhibit the movement of change for the individual.
Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.
Everything in my environment is offering me feedback, if I will only listen.
We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.
In order to be effective, be responsive. In order to be responsive, listen.
Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.
The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.
Imagination belongs to hope. It’s the creative dance of possibility.
The flow of the movement of change will be impeded wherever healing has not occurred.
Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change.
Navigating change is the new stability.
What I experience of change is either the flow of the movement of change or my resistance to it.
If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.
Passion is the fire that can burn through fear.
When I act, I act on behalf of who or what I love. Even when I have to fight against something, it is because of what I value and love.
Given that I don’t know anything, when I am making up stories about the future, why not make it a good story instead of a scary one?
We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life.
Without hope, I wouldn’t even try. Hope lifts me to consider new possibilities so I can stay the course of my desire, no matter what.
Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are.
Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.
A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire.
If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.
Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed.