Wake Up

May 17, 2013 · 0 comments

world

It’s your world…

Your little corner of it, anyway.

And if you were to concentrate on making it the best little world it could be,

That would be enough.

It would be enough to sustain you,

Nurture you,

Incite you into carrying all that goodness out into the rest of existence.

It starts at home.

Even more fundamental than that,

It starts with you…

Your mind,

Your body,

Your heart.

Everything flows from there.

Want a kinder, quieter, gentler world?

Do it yourself.

Be kind.

Be quiet.

Be gentle.

Not just with others, but with yourself.

The world’s not going to suddenly wake up one day and decide to change.

We are…

One little corner at a time.

Wake up.

Wake up to what’s real and what’s fantasy,

Wake up to what’s relevant and what’s extraneous,

Wake up to what’s eternal and what’s fleeting.

Wake up and remember that this is your life, your story, your world…

To do with what you will.

Wake up.

Things are not as bad as they seem.

We don’t have to change the entire world,

Just our own.

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