Society is a macrocosm of the individual spirit. If there is no changes within oneself, then all the cleaning up "outside," like the newly pressed out wrinkles of wrong doing in our behavior on the surface, means nothing.
A good analogy can be found in the pseudo "rehabilitative efforts," of clever prisoners made to get out. For example, a lot of inmates discovered that all they had to do was tell the "man" they have changed, had a spiritual revelation, were now ready to alter their life. After that, they took a training course and went up in front of the Parole Board and automatically were freed.
But strangely, after getting out they suddenly were back in trouble and had returned. The prison boards wondered why their carefully developed programs weren't working and discovered after careful scrutiny that the inmates had learned how to con the system--that is, to give society what they wanted to see, rather than really change.
The moral of the story:
Change, or rehabilitation from wrong action, must take place within oneself. Unless that change is real, deep and sincere, all the retraining and programming in the world won't be effective.
The truth is we must "will" the change in ourselves. Not just open to receive a new way of thinking, but actively involved in willing that change in ourselves--followed next by right action.
To change the world we must must first "CHANGE OURSELVES" and really mean it!
Nahu Lanham.
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