Wise Ways to Make a Difference
When we see an injustice or an imbalance, we're very good at saying 'Someone should do something'. We forget to say 'I am someone'.
As a boat carves its way through water, it leaves a wake of waves that spread far beyond its own path. The ripples extend for some distance-sometimes having an impact as far as the shore.
As we carve our way through life, we also leave a trail. What kind of a trail are you leaving behind?
Have you left a trail of smiling faces-people who have been uplifted or who have grown because you touched their life? Have your efforts contributed to correcting a wrong?
Do choices you make, moment by moment, make you part of the problems of our world, or part of the solutions?
This is the wise way: to pause and observe the impact you have on your environment and the people in it, and then to take concrete action to leave behind you a trail of positive ripples. This is the way of spiritual intelligence. Let everything you do and say reflect who you want to be.
Wisdom is knowledge put into action.
The Wise Way is to CARE
Concern
Awareness & Action
Responsibility
Enthusiasm
Each one of us can gently influence one individual. Individuals can influence an organisation or a community, and so, gradually, we can influence the world.
Ordinary individuals willing to protest against current practices have stopped wars, prevented damage to the land, and brought public awareness to all kinds of injustices.
It's consumer pressure (that's us folks!) that forces manufacturers to make products that are ecologically sound as well as free of cruelty and slavery.
You don't have to wait to be a hero before you can make your influence count.
All big things have small beginnings, but all small beginnings don't lead to big things. They need constant small additions as well.
Wise Words
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.
Robert Brault