“To a disciple who was forever complaining about others, the Master said, ‘If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.’”
Anthony de Mello
I was president of a high school sports booster organization. A man approached me. “We really should be doing X,” he informed me.
“That’s a really good idea,” I replied. “Could you head up a team to work out the idea and implement it?”
I never heard from him again.
I think that is similar to the disciple above. It’s easy to sit back and think about other people. There are things other people could do. There are ways other people could behave.
What’s important is you, yourself. What can you do? To lead? To seek peace? To seek justice?
First, change yourself. The rest follows.
Faith Venture 
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