Hi,
I often think about all the fear and hate in the world, and sometimes it feels like the problem is so BIG that there is nothing I can do to make a significant difference. Last night I got the idea that if I could find other people who also want to help, that maybe TOGETHER we CAN make a difference. The idea is to make a very small committment to add love and compassion to the world in our own way and try to find other people who might be interested in helping:
1. Make a personal committment to spend just one minute a day praying for world peace, or sending out feelings of love to the rest of the world, or doing WHATEVER FEELS RIGHT to add to the energy of love and compassion in the world EVERY DAY. Something small that does not feel like a burden or sacrifice, so that you will stick with it. As long as it somehow adds love to the world and is something more than you were doing before, it will make a difference. Then by following step 2 and finding other people willing to do the same thing, collectively it will mean a LOT more love in the world than there was before!
2. Send copies of this post or a similar letter of your own design to all your friends offering them the opportunity to do likewise. I normally hate spam e-mail, but it seems like a good way to get people involved. Please don't add something like "you will get good luck if you do this and something bad will happen if you don't do this" trying to force pople to participate. Just give people the opportunity to participate and let them know they will not be alone in doing it. It doesn't matter how you tell other people, whether it be e-mail or maybe making posts on other forums like this one or mentioning the idea in conversation to your friends, or anything else you can think up to share this opportunity with others. Whatever feels right to you.
If every person who wants to help can find 2-3 other people who also want to help, just think after a month or year or ten years how many NEW people would be having these thoughts of peace and love every day that did NOT have them before. Even if you don't believe in prayer, just the daily awareness of this by so many people would make a difference. Maybe put a reminder somewhere you are sure to see it every day to make sure you remember to do whatever you agreed for your minute a day. Please, if you think this is a good idea, take some action towards doing it RIGHT NOW before you get caught up in other things or forget.
Thanks for taking to time to read this, and I sincerely hope you will decide to do this. It really costs you nothing and I sincerely believe that collectively we can make a significant difference if we all take a moment to care and work together!
--Soulfire
I often think about all the fear and hate in the world, and sometimes it feels like the problem is so BIG that there is nothing I can do to make a significant difference. Last night I got the idea that if I could find other people who also want to help, that maybe TOGETHER we CAN make a difference. The idea is to make a very small committment to add love and compassion to the world in our own way and try to find other people who might be interested in helping:
1. Make a personal committment to spend just one minute a day praying for world peace, or sending out feelings of love to the rest of the world, or doing WHATEVER FEELS RIGHT to add to the energy of love and compassion in the world EVERY DAY. Something small that does not feel like a burden or sacrifice, so that you will stick with it. As long as it somehow adds love to the world and is something more than you were doing before, it will make a difference. Then by following step 2 and finding other people willing to do the same thing, collectively it will mean a LOT more love in the world than there was before!

2. Send copies of this post or a similar letter of your own design to all your friends offering them the opportunity to do likewise. I normally hate spam e-mail, but it seems like a good way to get people involved. Please don't add something like "you will get good luck if you do this and something bad will happen if you don't do this" trying to force pople to participate. Just give people the opportunity to participate and let them know they will not be alone in doing it. It doesn't matter how you tell other people, whether it be e-mail or maybe making posts on other forums like this one or mentioning the idea in conversation to your friends, or anything else you can think up to share this opportunity with others. Whatever feels right to you.
If every person who wants to help can find 2-3 other people who also want to help, just think after a month or year or ten years how many NEW people would be having these thoughts of peace and love every day that did NOT have them before. Even if you don't believe in prayer, just the daily awareness of this by so many people would make a difference. Maybe put a reminder somewhere you are sure to see it every day to make sure you remember to do whatever you agreed for your minute a day. Please, if you think this is a good idea, take some action towards doing it RIGHT NOW before you get caught up in other things or forget.
Thanks for taking to time to read this, and I sincerely hope you will decide to do this. It really costs you nothing and I sincerely believe that collectively we can make a significant difference if we all take a moment to care and work together!
--Soulfire