CHANGING ONESELF
TO CHANGE THE WORLD
French 
Spanish 
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
Portia Nelson
Chapter 1
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost ... I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.
Chapter 2
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
Chapter 3
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in ... it's a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
Chapter 4
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
Chapter 5
I walk down another street.
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ARTICLES :
NEW 04/2022 : Our Influence
RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP
Global/individual scale :
- Economy and human dignity (conf Joan Mellé) S
- A definition of sustainable degrowth S
- Ecological footprint S
- A plate for our health, the one of the planet and of all its inhabitants S
- Ecological footprint and passive violence S
Doing our part :
- Voluntary simplicity S
- What if we started de-clut-ter-ing? S
- Decluttering - 2006 file S
- 10 tips for starting degrowth S
- associated tales :
INNER EVOLUTION :
Beliefs and external influences :
- Our complacency S
- From opposition to non-violence S
- associated tales :
Communication:
- Argumentation and power relation S
- Opening up to communication S
- Stop being nice, be real S
- associated tale:
Brain - thoughts and emotions :
- Managing thoughts - managing emotions S
- I think therefore 'm not following anymore S
- Dispenza - You are the placebo S
- Your thought is not you S
- Collective intelligence S
- Dementia and youth S
- The boomerang of thoughts S
- Dispenza Ted conference S
Video in English - transcription in French - Our own violence S
- From fear to peace S
- EFT S
- associated tales:
OPENING OF CONSCIOUSNESS :
- The qualities of our defects S
- The rice experiment S
- The Four Agreements S
- The fifth Agreement S
- The heart intelligence S
- associated tales :
- The Wolf you feed
- Stones, pebbles and sand
- Wisdom of Lao Tzu
- Autobiography in 5 chapters
- Rebuilding the world
WHY CHANGING OURSELF -
OUR INFLUENCE :
- Presentation of the site S
- The morphogenetic fields S
- Our influence S
- associated tale :
- The Story of the Hummingbird
- Grain of sand
- Rebuilding the world
NON-VIOLENCE AT ALL LEVELS :
- Argumentation and power relation S
- From opposition to non-violence S
- Our own violence S
- From fear to peace S
- NVC - Stop being nice, be real S
- Ecological footprint and passive violence S
STORIES AND TALES
- The Story of the Hummingbird
- The wolf you feed
- Following or not
following
- Stones, pebbles and sand
- Wisdom of Lao Tzu
- Autobiography in 5 Short Chapters
- Grain of sand
- White
Birds and Black Birds
- Mexican fisherman, American
fisherman
- Rebuilding the world
- The boiled frog