Author: Margaret Paul, PhD

“Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What would happen if we each learned to take 100% responsibility for our own feelings and needs – learning to attend to our feelings with compassion for ourselves, and extending that compassion to others? What would happen if each of us were conscious enough to sweep in front of our own door – which means we would be conscious enough not to dump our filth on the rest of the world? I love to imagine the possibilities! Large corporations – such as Monsanto, Dow, the mass market food industry and factory farms, the drug companies, insurance companies, the oil industry, the banks (to name just a few) – would not be harming the planet with their greed. Instead, they would use their creativity, talent and resources to create health and wellbeing for everyone. Degenerative diseases would likely be a thing of the past if keeping our environment, our food and our water clean was a high priority of all industry. Child abuse, domestic violence and crime would be things of the past. When we learn to take loving care of ourselves, we cannot harm others. Homelessness and starvation would not exist. When we each learn to take loving care of ourselves, we find ourselves extending our love out...