Hello! Welcome to "How Can I Make It A Better World?"
Have I given up wanting to make it a better world?
It would seem so, from my fewer attempts to solve my puzzle.
I like to think that my frequent tweets at http://twitter.com/macrofacts has kept going my search for answers to my question.
Perhaps there is no way I, or any other person can the world better in any way.
Perhaps each one of us can only make our own selves better, and then the world we encounter will be a better world.
How can I make myself better?
By being at peace and harmony with myself, and with all people, events and things I come across.
In theory I should be able to remain at peace with myself, find happiness, in any circumstance of my life, because my peace and happiness is not dependent on outside circumstances.
No one or no events are responsible for how I feel. Only I decide how I want to feel.
All very well to say.
Can one be "happy" in any circumstance?
I think the answer to that question must be a resounding "Yes."
Viktor Frankl suffered many years as a concentration camp victim. Yet he survived to tell the world, in his "Man's Search For Meaning" that one CAN adopt an attitude of contentment in most trying of circumstances. It would seem that Frankl survived the concentration camp sorely because of his "positive attitude."
Another person who reports the "joy" experienced even in a disaster is writer Brandon Bays.
In her book "Freedom Is" she writes of her feelings when she came to a scene with her house, all her possessions, had gone up in flames in a forest fire.
She writes at her wonder at the deep blue sky she could see from where she was standing, her view unobstructed because there never was her house standing there in between.
In the story of "Ben Hur" is wrongly accused by a Roman Garrison Captain to spend years in a galley as a slave rower.
His quiet acceptance of his fate means that he survives the brutality to regain his freedom with all glory.
So, my feeling now is that even if i now feel oppressed by my circumstances, I should not give up on my own integrity, my inner peace and fortitude, but keep my hope alive.
My inner peace, being enjoined with the infinite unfathomable forces that are at the root of our existence. will surely make events proceed to make my wishes come true.
I do not need to make the world any better.
If I make myself better, and if everyone else makes it that they do allow themselves to suffer by their circumstances, they will make themselves, and the world, a better place to live in.
Wishing you every joy and abundance, Shree-1
Have I given up wanting to make it a better world?
It would seem so, from my fewer attempts to solve my puzzle.
I like to think that my frequent tweets at http://twitter.com/macrofacts has kept going my search for answers to my question.
Perhaps there is no way I, or any other person can the world better in any way.
Perhaps each one of us can only make our own selves better, and then the world we encounter will be a better world.
How can I make myself better?
By being at peace and harmony with myself, and with all people, events and things I come across.
In theory I should be able to remain at peace with myself, find happiness, in any circumstance of my life, because my peace and happiness is not dependent on outside circumstances.
No one or no events are responsible for how I feel. Only I decide how I want to feel.
All very well to say.
Can one be "happy" in any circumstance?
I think the answer to that question must be a resounding "Yes."
Viktor Frankl suffered many years as a concentration camp victim. Yet he survived to tell the world, in his "Man's Search For Meaning" that one CAN adopt an attitude of contentment in most trying of circumstances. It would seem that Frankl survived the concentration camp sorely because of his "positive attitude."
Another person who reports the "joy" experienced even in a disaster is writer Brandon Bays.
In her book "Freedom Is" she writes of her feelings when she came to a scene with her house, all her possessions, had gone up in flames in a forest fire.
She writes at her wonder at the deep blue sky she could see from where she was standing, her view unobstructed because there never was her house standing there in between.
In the story of "Ben Hur" is wrongly accused by a Roman Garrison Captain to spend years in a galley as a slave rower.
His quiet acceptance of his fate means that he survives the brutality to regain his freedom with all glory.
So, my feeling now is that even if i now feel oppressed by my circumstances, I should not give up on my own integrity, my inner peace and fortitude, but keep my hope alive.
My inner peace, being enjoined with the infinite unfathomable forces that are at the root of our existence. will surely make events proceed to make my wishes come true.
I do not need to make the world any better.
If I make myself better, and if everyone else makes it that they do allow themselves to suffer by their circumstances, they will make themselves, and the world, a better place to live in.
Wishing you every joy and abundance, Shree-1
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