Reflection 116

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Helping The World

I think that if we try to ameliorate, or abolish even, the dreadful things that are going on in the world – war and exploitation, starvation, pollution, all those things – if we try to do that at the level of the symptoms we’re not going to do very much. I wouldn’t say it’s useless, but it’s going to be insufficiently radical. We will not really make a contribution here until we tackle the root of the thing, and the root of the thing is to be found in each of our personal lives. If I’m suffering from this disease of confrontation in my relationship with you at this moment, what’s the use of trying to deal with the same problem of confrontation at other levels – national and international – confrontation between sexes, ethnic groups, religions, ideologies, power blocs, and so on? In other words, service to the world begins at home. Repeat: service to the world begins at home – if only because when you’ve found out Who you are you find you are the world. (From an interview with Douglas Harding quoted in Seeing Who You Really Are by Richard Lang.)

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