Inspiration from Ghandi

I heard a great inspiring story about Ghandi ...

A mother brought her child to Ghandi and asked if he would tell her boy to stop eating sweets as it was rotting his teeth. Ghandi replied, please bring the boy back in four months time.

The mother did as suggested and brought her son back to Ghandi and said again the boy's  teeth are rotting because he is still eating too many sweets.

Ghandi bent down and looked at the boy and said to stop eating sweets..it is rotting your teeth.

The mother was puzzled and asked Ghandi why he could not have said this four months previously.

He replied

" Four months ago, I was still eating sugar !"

Taking a Position and Making a Difference

I had a fascinating series of conversations with some friends at the weekend about all sorts of things. One was about the callousness and self interest one sees at play in world politics. ....One of my friends began to talk about our inability to make a difference on that bigger world scene...another disagreed radically and said that each person could actually make a difference by talking a position in themselves about the very things we do not want to see in the bigger picture. 

So, what were they really saying ?  In the example above, they were suggesting that if we allow ourselves to become callous, for example, even in small, we were basically playing for the same team as the politicians who were practising callousness on a large and visible scale. In other words, we in our small way add to the growth of callousness in the world. Or if we allow our lives to become governed purely by self interest, then we add to that influence in the world too.

In the light of quantum discoveries,( as well of course as age-old spiritual understandings!)  each of us humans influences the whole of humanity ....so each person's contribution ..even in small..truly makes a difference.

When you add to that,  when a decision is made consciously, deliberately and repetitively, it perhaps holds more transmitting strength than when something happens unconsciously....well, it gives a more positive and hopeful situation in which we all can take a position which can help make the world a kinder place to be.