Very few of us work on piercing through our projected deceptions and save ourselves from the commotion of a wasted life—duty bound and irresponsible at the same time. Education prepares to teach us how to fit into a job quashing the potential to be more humane. We are taught to solve problems and go through the motions without realizing that there are no problems at all apart from the mind. Problems are always related to fear and self centeredness. Insecurity is a permanent stamp upon humanity and self is an abstraction manufactured by thought. So, do we really have problems or are we just in doubt, fearful and self-centered?

Where is the “clarity” that dissolves all problems and the duality of thought itself?

When interpretation is based on opinion and assumption it has little to do with reality and fragmentation continues to thrive. Through questioning we can free ourselves from opinions, assumptions, beliefs, conclusions, and consequences. Self discovery, not efficiency leads to new action founded on the need to express truth and love within rather than ambition and motive. This is where transformation takes place.

Society will not change, but we can govern the law of our own being as we rise to the heights and relate with the reality within. We may not be able to do anything about government, but we can be aware of what is not ethical and then build our lives with self-responsibility for our own ethics and virtues. This is each our responsibility, to love one another as ourselves. To accept that responsibility is life transforming. And no-thing can defeat this inner shift.

The Kingdom is perfectly united and perfectly protected, and the ego will not prevail against it. Amen.
~ A Course in Miracles, I, pg 54

Also See my article "The Path of Heart " recently published in Sibyl Magazine, Febuary 2008 issue on pg 24.