Bhagavan - one can begin only with oneself

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A socially minded visitor told Bhagavan, "What I would like to do is to go around the world and set things right. I came to ask you for the strength and power to do this work."

 

"You are like a starving beggar offering a feast to all comers", answered Bhagavan. "How can a man who cannot help himself help anybody? First set yourself right and then only set out to improve others. Change the hearts of man and the world will surely change. But one must begin somewhere, and one can begin only with oneself."

 

~ taken from The Power of the Presence, vol. 3, p.97

edited by David Godman