Skrze sebe změním tebe a dotknu se nebe – Menděl Jan (2025)

Many of us want to change the world because we don't like how it looks.

Every day, every hour, and every minute we can dedicate ourselves to changing for the better. It's not a matter of saying and changing; it's about saying and changing, continuously, without stopping, over and over again. If we do this honestly, we will find that we have very little time left for printing flyers, fighting against something, participating in discussions, etc. Is it a self-serving retreat into our cocoons and ignoring the outside world? Maybe. But maybe not.

I can complain about the news, the media, the governments, the corporations...

Or I can throw my television out the window, make a paper hat out of newspapers, spend not even a minute a month on politics, and stop desiring nonsense that I don't want and certainly don't need. I can turn my home into a temple full of peace and love and invite those I care about into it. I can sweep the sidewalk in front of my house and smile at my neighbor. I can close the gate through which billions of unnecessary, nonsensical, distorted, and negative pieces of information flow into my head, and I can learn to seek within myself.

I can find peace within myself and deepen and strengthen it day by day so that nothing can shake it, and if it does shake, ...