I have learned to trust the processes that take time, to value change that is not sudden or ill-considered but grows out of the ground of experience. Such change is properly defined as conversion, a word that at its root connotes not a change of essence but of perspective, as turning around; turning back to or returning; turning one’s attention to.

Kathleen Norris

from Dakota: A spiritual Geography. Houghton Mifflin Company. Boston, 1993.