“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy
Change yourself and everything else around you changes, slowly. It’s a knock-on effect. And in time the world changes. It’s slow, but it does happen. Which is more than most of us can say for our best intentions to go out there and create something grand and exciting that will fix depression, or youth suicide, or breast cancer.
Bring it in close to home, rather than working outwards, and you get results. Gently. Effectively.
My spiritual counselor friend Sky once told me to “be my message”. I’d been rabbiting on about how I wanted to show, and to tell, people how to do things better.