Saturday, March 23, 2002 - No Simpler than this' Thoughts Archive - like it or not, we're all in this together.

"Faith, Enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the nescessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains." that is one of the awesome observations made by Eric Hoffer in his pocketsized treatise on "The ordeal of change".

Its an older book and some of the examples seem quaint yet at the same time they are clearly generic observations on our human experience. He names many more of the dynamics that we find in the chemistry of our souls and I'm having a wonderful time traveling along with him into the depth of his book on an otherwise slightly crazed day. I know the ride/ the truth of how drastic change causes us to be misfits .. and how that experience liberates passions that drive us into action.

so far the book's offering a fresh and cool look at the process of change, thats one we all begrudgingly accept sooner or later.