Change

"It is far more creative to work with the idea of mindfulness rather than the idea of will.   Too often people try to change their lives by using will as a kind of hammer to beat their life into proper shape.   The intellect identifies the goal of the program, and the will accordingly forces the life into that shape.   This way of approaching the sacredness of ones own presence is externalistic and violent.   It brings you falsely outside yourself, and you can spend years lost in the wilderness of your own mechanical, spiritual programs.   You can perish in a famine of your own making."   John O' Donahue