If we don’t like what we see in ourselves or, for that matter, what we see in this strife-ridden world, then let us be the first ones to witness a new paradigm emerge within. Let the frequency of the higher vibration we manifest through Bhagavan’s teaching be our silent contribution to the collective, trusting it will ripple out and have its effect. Let us be the change we want to see in the world, to quote Gandhiji, because the cynicism and bitterness we imagine we see in the world only signals a corresponding cynicism and bitterness unconsciously hidden away within our own hearts. Let us recover our innocence using the healing power of enquiry, knowing all the while that when we illumine the shadow within, we break the shackles of shame and self-judgment. If the shackles within get broken, the shackles in the collective begin to break up too, and we end up being of service to this poor suffering world trying against all odds to become whole. —

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