We change our minds when it comes to the small things, but we we don’t change our minds over the big things.

As we grow older we can become more fixed in how we think about things.

Maybe we have things the wrong way around.

What if we changed our minds about the big things and didn’t change them about the small things – if you start signalling in your car to turn left, I don’t want you to turn right, or reverse.

To change one’s mind is often seen as being weak at best and dangerous at worst. But to keep our eyes open to there being more to people, to the world, and to ourselves will require we change our mind and our heart:

‘By heart, I mean that place where the emotions meet reason to mobilise the will and shape identity.’*

It’s the best hope we have for changing our world for the better:

“By deliberately changing the internal image of reality, people can change the world.  Indeed, the real fundamental changes in societies have come about not by dictates of governments and the results of battles, but through vast numbers of people changing their minds.**

(*From Alex McManus’s Makers of Fire.)
(**Social scientist Will Harman, quoted in Joseph Jaworski’s Source.)