Graduating from Gradualism

There is another part of Martin Luther King Jr's great speech in Detroit that I would like to share with you all: "They say, "Why don’t you do it in a gradual manner?" Well, gradualism is little more than escapism and do-nothingism, which ends up in stand-stillism."

I have also heard such a cry out among the Nay-Sayers around me.
They say the community is not ready for such grand dreams I have.
They say the people are not willing to change... it's too uncomfortable... it's not the way we've always done it.
They say our small group is doing too much... we're making the others look bad.
They say "slow down"...

And to them I say
Unwilling to Change? It's too uncomfortable?
The germination of a seed is Change. The birth of an infant is Change.
Change is rarely comfortable. Comfort becomes complacency to the status quo... which becomes a stagnant death.
Change is necessary. Change for the sake of change is not progress... the Change must be for Purpose... and the Purpose must be for conscientious growth.

NOW is not the time to slow down.
NOW is when Life happens!
This community already has been moving at the pace of sap on snow.
Today... This minute... Life is happening, the World is spinning, and the stars still shine on this planet.
We do not gradually experience a moment of Life.
We do not gradually experience a moment of ecstatic Understanding.
We do not gradually experience a paradigm shift of Awareness.

THIS is our Moment.
If you blink too slow, you'll miss it.