Re: Individual Responsibility

Indeed.  It all starts with self.  With the free will and personal responsibilty born with us; to mould ourselves into something that can be the embodiment of happiness -thus, moulding our families, communities, nations, continents and planet(s). 

People tend to take happiness with a pinch of salt.  They tend to throw it back a t the sixties, calling it fluffy -calling it romantic and dreamy.  But why not?  The one thing that every creature on this planet shares is the desire to be happy -to be free from suffering.  Why should this be such a “grand” dream for our civilization?

Re: Individual Responsibility

Whatever we believe will happen…will happen. What we focus on we create.

Happy sounds like a worthy focus to me.

“Become the change you wish to see in the world.” Gandhi

Re: Individual Responsibility

“Whatever we believe will happen”

Mmm.  This is one that I have struggled with for many a weary moment in my time.

I am neither certain and convinced, or uncertain and convinced.

I often tell myself….if I carry on thinking this will happen (often something negative) that it will, and that I will have caused the event with my own negativity.  But then the thing does not happen and I am joyous and thankful….and I go on wondering if that my joy is what is causing all the wonderful things to happen around me.

Its a strange one.  -The mind, is a strange one.

I honestly believe though that, if a community were to be happy (focussed and mindfully happy) that the world would inturn change from this.

So thankyou, for your little post there.  It brought something home for me and convinced me of a small internal dialogue/argument I have been having with myself for some time now.

Slante Mhor.