If you want to focus on the positive, if you want to focus on the changes you wish to make, you have to know what you're trying to change. What are you trying to change? In order to know what you're trying to change, you've got to think about that. You've got to think about the bad things in the world that are going on because those are the things you want to change. You just can't say, "I want to change...er, ah...I can't mention what I want to change, because that would be `focusing on the negative.' But whatever is `negative,' I want to change that! I want to change something, I know that. I want to change something."

No, you have to actually say, "I want to change prejudice. I want to change the oppression of people. I want to change the conditions that create starving children."

You've got to look at Life and say, "That's what I want to change." Part of the problem in the new-age community is that we get into this idea that we've got to focus only on the positive, only on the positive - be the change you wish to see - only on the positive. But changing what? Even positive thinkers have got to say, "Okay, there is a train coming down the tracks." That's just what's so. Now, do we want to get off the tracks or do we want to not mention to anyone that there is a train coming...? What do we want to do? ~ Neale Donald Walsch