{"id":11452,"date":"2015-02-04T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/?p=11452"},"modified":"2015-02-04T13:31:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:31:05","slug":"it-starts-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2015\/02\/it-starts-with-me.html","title":{"rendered":"It Starts With Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"young-girl-with-basket-of-vegetables\"<\/a>From the I Ching or Book of Changes<\/em> by Brian Browne Walker:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA healthy family, a healthy country, a healthy world \u2013 all grow from a single superior person.\u00a0 This is the proper foundation of human communities.\u00a0 All clans must have a superior person at the center if they are to prosper and succeed.\u00a0 Therefore, in order to improve our family, company, nation or world community, we must begin by improving ourselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you will observe healthy families you will always see present in them three qualities: love, faithfulness and correctness.\u00a0 When we truly love others, we are naturally kind, gentle and patient with them.\u00a0 When we are faithful to others, we place proper principles and conduct above temporary influences like anger, desire or greed.\u00a0 And when we practice correctness, we spiritually nourish ourselves and all those around us.\u00a0 When all three qualities are cultivated, a healthy clan springs naturally into being.<\/span><\/p>\n

The difference between paying lip service to these ideals and practicing them is profound.\u00a0 If you advocate high ideals and actions to others but do not embody them yourself, your influence will disintegrate for lack of a proper foundation.\u00a0 Therefore, you must first instill them in yourself.<\/span><\/p>\n

Concentrate not upon influencing others or external events but upon strengthening your inner devotion to proper principles.\u00a0 When modesty, acceptance, equanimity and gentleness become deeply ingrained in your character, they will flow steadily outward from you.\u00a0 Soon you will find yourself enmeshed in a web of healthy relationships, and in this there is great good fortune.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Our world is facing its greatest challenge.\u00a0 The serious problems in our environment, health, economies, governments and families stem from our individual and collective behavior.\u00a0 The way to improve the world is to improve ourselves.\u00a0 By each of us becoming the best we can be, the better we can help one another.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s to be, it\u2019s up to me.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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\n \ud83d\ude42 Lee<\/span>
\nThe MEGA Coach<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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