Charles E. Schumer Quotes

The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.

It's been a long time coming but the reality is that this process is at a crossroads.

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

This is a turning point in human history.

Crisis creates leverage to change.

You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.

I am on the cusp of change and the curve is shifting fast.

I actually don't think it matters how early or late you are as long as you hit critical mass.

There is a point at which a transformation has to take place.

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

Everything is going to change.

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

One play can change your momentum forever.

The time for change is now.

If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

I remember once when we were moving, driving across country, and it was raining so hard, the windshield wipers going fast and squeaking, and then: nothing. It stopped. I looked out the window ahead of me and it was clear. I looked out the back and there was the rain, still going. Nobody said anything, but there it was, a near miracle, a rain line, a way of seeing just where something starts, when usually you are just in the middle of it before you notice it. That's how it feels to me now, to not want to be like (that) anymore. I see the line.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.

It's just the end of some things. And the beginning of others.

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.