Be the change.
Mahatma Gandhi expressed it beautifully when he said, “Be the change you wish to see in the world“. This isn’t just a beautiful quote, it’s a profound wisdom. It’s a critical life lesson. It’s a pathway to a better existence, a better world.
Now that all sounds very nice, but you may be thinking, “How can a quote lead us to a better world?” It’s a good question, so let’s explore 🙂
Emitting your light.
Let’s step back a moment and think about our true, inner selves. The energetic non-existent, yet infinitely-existent beings that we are inside.
We are all capable of emitting Divine light, but this takes practice in truly seeing everything as connected. It takes practice being kind to everyone and everything. To treat all of life as if it was part of you – of course, which it is.
We all experience glimmers of emitting Divine light, some more than others. Some longer than others. So until we hit the threshold in our evolution, where we ourselves actually emanate Divine Light from within all the time, the best we can do for now is to reflect the Divine light we experience around us. The reflection helps not only ourselves, but others.
How do we get to experience that divinity? Through what we focus on. What we focus on is what’s attracted to us – like a magnet, or moths to a flame. What we place real feeling and importance upon is what we attract. We then reflect whatever we attract back outward. We see it manifest in our material lives, in the physical world.
We're here to practice.
So being the change we wish to see is more than a platitude – it’s instruction. And instruction we’d all benefit from if we follow it.
We may not all be able to walk each step of our lives with the same Divinity as the Masters and Gurus who came before us, but we sure can try.
Even if just a little bit. Let’s focus on the love, joy, and peace we naturally have within us so it reflects back outward into our world. And perhaps, we may find ourselves in this pursuit, actually shining and emitting that love, joy and peace as the creators we are (from within) instead of just reflecting it.
Keep practicing shining that beautiful light of yours. Big love, Melissa 💗
I absolutely love this message. Thank you for looking at this quote and helping me to make this change in me.
Thank you so much for stopping by Lisa, and I’m so glad you enjoyed this post! You’re most welcome for everything, and I thank you for choosing the path of love & light! #biglove
Thanks for explaining the meaning of Gandhiji’s post from the point of view of acknowledging our divinity and the power to create a better life and world, Melissa.
When we change the way we see the world around us, our responses change too and we become the change that we wish to create around us.
Thank you so much for stopping by Vatsala, and it’s truly an honour to share such a divine message. I agree with you – when we change the way we see the world, the world around us changes 🙂 Thank you so much for choosing a path of love & light, keep shining #biglove
Beautiful Post! We need more people in the world to want to change the world and make it more loving more calming. Now more than ever we need this. #Biglove
Namaste
Thank you so much for stopping by Toni, and yes I agree! I’m so glad you resonated with this post, keep shining your light my sweet friend! Big love back to you!
Thank you for sharing, this is truly something to think seriously about and act upon.
You are most welcome Mary, and thank you so much for stopping by! I’m so glad this resonated with you, big love!
nice!
Thank you so much for stopping by David, big love to you 🙂