Welcome and welcome back. While I am creating I spend less time being grumpy. It’s a blessing that’s easy to accept. Even as I smash these words, I am simply happy to be here. I have been collecting quote memes until I have run out of storage and cannot run system upgrades on a couple devices. I had thought that I would share more of them with you. And, I have been noting the time and energy that goes into sharing. Audio. Visual. Straight text. I changed my mind. And, in the interest of not cluttering the AI Cloud Farms resource hogs with images that already exist, I find that I have already started a list of links to writers that have spoken to me. Love and Hugs, Verandananda, https://www.davidlwhite.org/search?q=verandananda Thanks to Rob Brezsny for gathering these quotes that seemed to bring this into focus this morning. _______________________ Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow. The person who never alters their opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one’s mind. Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. The snake that can’t cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. I wanted to be a ballerina. I changed my mind. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Only the strongest people have the pluck to change their minds, and say so, if they see they have been wrong in their ideas. Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes. I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed. Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness. … Thank you!
Take some time for your self. Perhaps a one-minute Joy Breath Meditation. Relax. (ha ha). Slow your breathing. Remember several moments of joy you have felt in your life until you can feel the joy as if it’s happening again in this very moment. Blessings to you!
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