Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
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"Imagination belongs to hope. It’s the creative dance of possibility."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"Hope dreams into being what is possible but not yet formed."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"A wish is a single unit of hope. It’s a single request for something I dearly desire."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"Don't be afraid that things are changing, because indeed they always are."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"If we can’t feel into the heart of grief, we can’t truly move on to experience hope and joy. We can’t be present to what is now, and what is next, because we are bound by the loss and sorrow that holds us to the past. Grief has to flow. It has to be carried, not just by you, but by the others with you, by your community, until it transforms to the next rightful calling of your heart to action."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"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."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"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?"
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"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."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"Passion is the fire that can burn through fear."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"The resistance, though it comes in many forms, begins with the mistaken belief that I am somehow separate from change, and that I can control it, rather than to align myself with change as it makes itself apparent, and ride it."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"What I experience of change is either the flow of the movement of change or my resistance to it."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"Navigating change is the new stability."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"The flow of the movement of change will be impeded wherever healing has not occurred."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"Loss is an inevitable part of change."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"Change occurs on a continuum and does not move in a straight line."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"Every journey towards change begins with awareness."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"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."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change
"Shame often causes me to hide my mistakes from others. But really, when I make a mistake, I should make it loud and clear, so I can see that it didn’t work as a strategy, and be able to make a course correction, either by myself or with the help of others."
Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change