If the future is to differ from the past, [Gandhi] taught, if we are to leave a peaceful and healthy earth for our children, it will be the ordinary man and woman who do it: not by becoming extraordinary, but by discovering that our greatest strength lies not in how much we differ from each other but in how much -- how very much -- we are the same. -- "Words to Live By," Eknath Easwaran, February 17.
I need to change my focus. It is not mine to educate the Tea Party-ers, the religious fanatics, the pharmaceutical industry, et al. It is mine to find my sameness with them...with Wayne LaPierre, with John McCain, with Sylvia Schloppenhaufer who lives next door to me and is a blah blah blah, all equaling "wrong" because each is the antithesis of my "right."
Easwaran's last line in today's reading: "One person can make a difference." The change, we learn, comes from within us, is already within us awaiting release...and we have started. We must never forget, we have started...it is now for us to continue.
Thank You.
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