If each person does his little bit, that’s better than nothing, isn’t it? At least the efforts should be with the objective of bettering the world or attempting it. We all aren’t called upon to make momentous impact on the course of human events but with the collective efforts of humans, like with voting, each personal act becomes incorporated in the collective effort.

Are you familiar with Milton’s sonnet “On Blindness”? There’s the line “He (We) also serve only stand and wait”.

Two thoughts:

1) When devoid of ideas, it’s well to do nothing till a good idea dawns.

2) Watching to see how events play out with the hope of having those in position to act meaningfully is OK. With our internet and emails, we can give feedback if that can help the cause.

Your question is something all of us frustrated in seeing there’s so much that needs attn going unattended in a meaningful way.

But hopelessness is for losers who give up and stop caring.

Ah, you’ve gotten and taken rightly EN’s call to get engaged in the world rather than being on the sidelines!

Maintaining personal peace is also part of the deal, not to lose that if it can be helped. Being peaceful in the eye of storms is important and helpful, no?

Is it that India hasn’t learned from mistakes or that there’s been a falling away from lessons learned. Oh, that’s a mistake,isn’t it?

India has developed some of the most spiritual teaching and teachers but like wisdom, “getting it” depends on a long-term reinforcement, like with any learning to remind people of the lessons being put forth and how those lessons play out in everyday life.

What’s happened in India is that there are so many faiths competing to be accepted as Truth, and they obviously throw aside the main message of religions of peace and harmony with others. It’s not what you think you believe but how you behave. Killing others in the name of religion is an oxynmoron, key word: moron.

I harp on the idea that we humans have the potential to be “our real selves” but until a spiritual Awakening Event is attained, this potential remains dormant for most, unawakened and unrealized. For me there’s a difference between a Self and a self, unawakened.

By Awakening, one not only realizes the full spiritual potential and our consciousness is heightened to the responsibility of committing our Selves to the betterment of the world in a realized way. It’s possible to be spiritual w/o that Awakening but with that attainment, it’s much more committed, IMO and personal experience.

To all: May I ask if you’ve had an Awakening or not?

“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.”

“It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.”

“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”

Keep on keeping on!

Best, FL

Darrell

“At the center of the social gospel is the concept and reality of the kingdom of God. Much like The Spirit itself, the kingdom of God has both an individual and a social dimension: both a material as well as nonmaterial manifestation; and both a heavenly and earthly residency. …Clearly, the kingdom of God demands fulfillment of both the physical and spiritual needs of humanity. However, it also projects not only the centrality of the spiritual, but the economic conversion of society once the spiritual is the social focus. Instead of an economy based upon the search for and maximization of private profit, the godly search is for social righteousness and its maximization. Rather than a society enriching the few at the expense of the many, there is a society that uses all of its resources to promote the common good through abolition of material poverty and elevation of spiritual wealth.”

Darrell

“The crises now facing the human race are technically solvable. Controlling population, reducing pollution, and eliminating racism and war do not require new inventions. Yet these problems may prove fatally insolvable because what is required is a shift in values, in self-definition, and in world view on the part of each person – for it is the individual consciousness that is the problem. Our survival is threatened now because of our great success in manipulating our environment and acting on others. The action mode has ruled our individual lives and our national politics, and the I-It relationship that has provided the base for technical mastery is now the primary obstacle to saving our race. If, however, each person were able to feel an identity with other persons and with his environment, to see himself as part of a larger unity, he would have that sense of oneness that supports the selfless actions necessary to regulate population growth, minimize pollution, and end war. The receptive mode we have been discussing is the mode in which this identification – the I-Thou relationship – exists and it may be needed to provide the experiential base for the values and world view now needed so desperately by our society as a whole.”

Darrell

Love is not the answer.
Peace is not the answer.
Even truth is not the answer.  
The answer is both d. and e., all of the above and none of the above. 
 
Here is why: 
Love God (wholeness) with all your heart and all your mind and all your soul. 
  Means honor/follow God with all three functions of 
    Seeing there (mind/truth), Getting there (heart/love), and Being there (soul/peace), but none alone nor not all three simply pasted together – only all three woven together in an integrated fashion.
Darrell