Reflect

When the 17th-century Italian astronomer Galileo proposed that the earth revolved around the sun, it was revolutionary to European thought and so threatening to the status quo that he was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life. For every such famous transformational understanding or discovery, there are millions of smaller but seismic shifts in our understanding of things that can change the way we live — releasing a long-held story, forgiving or being forgiven, committing to a cause, discovering a calling in life. These small revolutions depend on the willingness to see beyond the status quote to a different possibility.