Changing yourself is the main lever to change the world (Martin Buber)

Change is synonymous with intelligence, authenticity, and courage. But it's also one of the most powerful tools we have to improve life, and not just our own.

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Martin Buber
Martin Buber was a great philosopher and theologian, known primarily for his studies of human relationships, highly relevant in a world that has become fluid, partly due to relationships that are more real than virtual. He also deserves credit for having captured, in a few words, the contagious energy of change, the fruit of hope, the optimism of willpower, and even the passion with which we approach things, even those that seem unchangeable. In a single sentence, Buber buries all those who interact with others, shielded in the armor of a warning as sterile as it is hypocritical: . Nothing could be further from the truth. Change is always possible., even if it is often tiring and also requires the right amount of time.
  • Change It's a verb whose starting point can only be found within us, and each of us knows how to conjugate it. Those who refuse, or try, are usually the same people who are always judgmental, giving grades and report cards to others, and feeling like the Supreme Judge of other people's lives. But not of their own.
  • Change It's a sign of intelligence, authenticity, and courage. Three concepts that round out the effort and make it unique in its strength, even contagious.
  • Change It enriches, stimulates curiosity and passion, and makes time feel useful again. Those who succeed are rightly convinced that "it's never too late" to try.
  • Change Inside and out has nothing to do with transformism, the tendency to pretend to change in order to remain true to oneself, to protect one's own interests and sometimes even one's own prejudices. Over time, transformism has transformed from an individual attitude into a true culture.
  • To change means recognize the sense of limitation, not be affected by it hybris, but this does not mean that we should remain paralyzed and incapable of taking risks and moving, even in human relationships, only according to the pendulum of convenience.
  • Change, when necessary, is a liberating gesture, which brings us closer to others and helps us accept them, each with their own limits.

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