A STATE OF MIND FOR CHANGE... Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A STATE OF MIND FOR CHANGE
(From ‘Self-Reliance’, an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson)
* A mind perpetually ready to revolt against its own conclusions.
* A mind prepared not for disbelief (nothing so dogmatic), but for a constant graceful skepticism.
* A mind that is open to any possibility, including impossibility.
* A mind of democratic hospitality to other views (the present has a thousand eyes - not just one).
* A mind that is profoundly questioning, but bouyantly hopeful.
* A mind willing and able to bring established processes, procedures and, yes, people to judgement.
* A mind easy in the conviction that the verdict on any course of action is brought in finally, not by science, not by reason, not by technology, not even by public opinion, but by results.
* A mind that can bear the light of a new day.
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