If a violinist wants to become a pianist, he will have to change his musical performance habits and customs. If a resident of Venezuela moves to New York, he will have to modify his customs of life and adapt to the new Country.
Here is the formula for true spiritual change.
In order for a spiritual desire to be satisfied, the internal systems given by false perceptions and erroneous conditioning must be changed. You cannot be satisfied by thinking, talking, or reading about change.
It is not possible to do it through social improvements or ecclesiastical activities. Changing oneself means precisely one thing: Changing oneself. Beneficial change cannot occur through reasoning or intellectual analysis.
It cannot happen because all thinking based purely on rational intelligence is conditioned by existing paradigms. Emerson said "You find men everywhere talking about their memories, instead of talking about their understanding." This is a spiritual truth.
If you ask how can I change? You will find the answer in every true teaching, given through the ages by great thinkers and teachers of spiritual excellence. So you have:
Hinduism manifests: Discover your authentic self.
George Gurdjieff: Wake Up
Taoism: Flows with events.
New Testament: Born again.
Zen: Let the mind be silent.
William James: Be genuinely practical.
Krishnamurti: You are consciously aware of yourself.
Buddhism: Abandon egocentrism.
Soren Kierkegaard: Be a true individualist.
What has been said is the basis of Emotional Intelligence, with the competence of self-knowledge, to enter into true spiritual change.
