A fine mind said this . . . . . . .

"But here she is, all mine, trying her best

to give me all she can. How can I ever

hurt her? But I didn't understand then.

That I could hurt somebody so badly she

would never recover. That a person can,

just by living, damage another human

being beyond repair."

"South of the Border, West of the Sun"

by Haruki Murakami

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. No one can be neutral. You cannot start from scratch, you cannot decide to start again in a world where bread is given out fairly.

It is simply not enough to find out about yourself. You are always applying what you learn, whether you see it in action or not, whether you want to or not.

Up till now on this site, most of the emphasis has been at looking 'inside', the main work of Constancy. Now the scope broadens . . . .

Changing yourself and changing the world are the same thing, even if the connection is hard to see. And this is a two way street. Perhaps you have already saved the life of the next Hitler. What you do, both deliberately and accidentally, affects you and the world. This interaction involves complexity beyond our imagining. Trying to predict and track such change is vastly difficult. Yet we see that a few snowflakes can start an avalanche. The acorn grows into a tall tree. If the seeds in your heart are true, they will bear good fruit eventually. If you can find what is really true for you, it follows, that you can find what is true in the world. You can find what is true 'outside' as well as 'inside'. If you can find what is true in the world then you can decide which parts to nurture . . . . . . .

You can apply Praxis to look out at the World, as you can use it to look in at your own process. In that outer looking, it helped me to find some Kernels.