Posted by Ilchi Lee:
All these changes will begin when our goals and our ideas of growth change. From such a point, a basic series of changes to our way of living will follow, eventually resulting in a quiet but inexorable shift worthy of being called historic. It will be a shift from a non-sustainable to sustainable civilization, from material-worshipping to a material-utilizing civilization; from success-pursuing to a civilization desiring a perfection of the soul of its people.
It will also be a shift from a hypercritical civilization in which ideals and reality betray each other, to an honest and conscientious one in which your life is an accurate representation of the truth in your heart. It will be a shift from self-destruction to self-nurturance, from the powers of destruction to the powers of healing, from a world of Jews, Arabs, Americans, Chinese, to a world of Earth-Humans, of spirituality.
It will be a shift from a parasitic civilization that cannot safely dispose of its own garbage to a mature civilization that will pick up what it has dropped, replant where it has harvested, and rejuvenate when it has withdrawn substance. From a foolish civilization where history tends to repeat itself to a wise civilization that realizes that the Heaven, Earth, and Human Trinity is the basis of all existence, and which takes responsibility to actualize the bright light of enlightenment within. From a world where people live in isolation and non-communication in a sea of information to a world where all of the Earth will communicate freely. From a civilization lorded over by a small group of political or spiritual elitists who uses violence and coercion as common tools to a world where enlightenment is the same as common sense.