“If you don't like it, change it, we said, to each other and to ourselves. And so we would change for the man, for another one. Change, we were sure, was for the better always. We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
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“If we don't reorganize ourselves, we won't ever change.”
Source: Dado Center Journal vol. 16-17, July 2018, https://www.idf.il/%D7%90%D7%AA%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9D/dado-center/dcj-volume-16-17/
Source: The Integration of the Personality (1939), p. 285
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
“We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.”
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“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
VALIS (1981)
Context: We hypostasize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outwards once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.