“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
—Thomas à Kempis

eople have been trying to change each other since before the beginning of beginningless time.

It’s so tiring. So intrusive. So counterproductive. So manipulative.

So easy.

The difficulty is simply sitting with our uncontrollable desire to get involved. With the need to rescue or the need to relieve pain. Or fix. Or eliminate. Never realizing that what others may need to express is exactly what needs to be expressed.

No matter how difficult that may be for us to witness.
If we were to be honest with ourselves, we’d realize that trying to change others is rarely for the benefit of the other person. We do it so we don’t have to feel uncomfortable with ourselves and our own thoughts, so we can shut off their screaming and appease our ego.

No one ever sits with themselves or others. No one ever trusts each others’ adequacy.

We look out and see others who are so frail and weak. We think they need to be spared their grief.

How arrogant. How self-centered.

The world doesn’t need another screwed up person trying to save it. Please tend to your own life. Work out your own salvation diligently. Focus on your internal garden.

Let the fruit of your cultivation bring peace to the world.

Let inner peace create world peace.