Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.
Interpretation
Adaptability is crucial as circumstances evolve; clinging to old ideas can hinder growth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing that reality is not static but constantly evolving. Grace Lee Boggs advocates for the necessity of adapting our thoughts and ideas to align with the changing world, warning against the dangers of being trapped in outdated beliefs, which can prevent personal and societal progress.
In practice
Use this quote when discussing innovation in a business meeting.
We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.
We urgently need a paradigm shift in our concept of the purposes and practices of education. We need to leave behind the concept of education as a passport to more money and higher status in the future and replace it with a concept of education as an ongoing process that enlists the tremendous energies and creativity of schoolchildren in rebuilding and respiriting our communities and our cities now, in the present.
How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end up in prison?
You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.
The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?
Companies could step up to the plate time and time again and help out by cleaning up a groundwater system that's contaminated, being more transparent with the community when they have a problem, respecting that community, getting them out of harm's way.
All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.
Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?
The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
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