Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Shocking change

Not everything that is faced can be changed.
But nothing can be changed until it is faced. …
Most of us are about as eager to change as we were to be born,
and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James Baldwin, in Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
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