"Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything"
I am not done yet.
P.S. Note to self:
Change
In what has now become a "classic" of Gestalt therapy literature, Arnold Beisser described Gestalt's paradoxical theory of change. The paradox is that the more one attempts to be who one is not, the more one remains the same. Conversely, when people identify with their current experience, the conditions of wholeness and growth support change. Put another way, change comes about as a result of "full acceptance of what is, rather than a striving to be different". (Wikipedia, dont you just love the place!)
a laudible ambition... and yet paradoxically having faith in personal "change" is concomitant with knowing that striving and suffering go hand in hand.
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