RE: Mental Health: Healing Ourselves so We can Heal the World
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I remain somewhat ambivalent as to whether we really need to heal ourselves first, before we can help the world.
I think neitchze summed that up very well..
"How can someone who can't save himself, save others?
...Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?.."
My 'stepsister'(for want of a better term) worked with mother Theresa for a while, in India - And she was a bitch! (Theresa, not my stepsister).
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Yeah, I've heard that about Theresa, from various sources.
The whole argument has always been interesting to me from the perspective of being able to know right action, even if we don't necessarily take right action, ourselves.
I've tended to find (not always but enough to notice), that those who know but do not take action - and then try to impart 'knowledge' theoretically, are the less authentic human beings.
This is why I think education is best left to the over 40's.
A degree doesn't cut it,imo - but having life experiences from doing is far more valuable.
Hells to the yeah!
That pokes at that old truism that "having knowledge" isn't the same as "having wisdom."