Only You Can Change You

I am catching up with sharing some quotes from what I read during our recent road trip. Today’s batch presents some ideas that I think are useful for self reflection. On the Importance of Rituals Protesilaos https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2026-07-27-importance-rituals/ “God is everywhere, but to the person with the tunnelled conscience God does not exist even if they consider themselves religious. Belief as such is not relevant. One can make the casual claim “I believe in God”, which usually has the same meaning as “I do not believe in anything in particular”. The reason is that belief only matters when it is expressed as a lifestyle. It otherwise is tokenistic, an exercise in virtue signalling, or a parroting of precepts that are devoid of substance.” The Extreme Is the Easy Way Out JA Westenberg https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/the-extreme-is-the-easy-way-out “We talk about the boring middle. The lazy middle. The compromised middle. But I put it to you that our obsession with…