To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
You are the centre of that world. That is the world you live in. Now how will you change the world? By changing yourself.
As you are externally aware, so also you can be inwardly aware of your thoughts and feelings, of your motives and urges, of your prejudices, envies, greed and pride…This outward and inward awareness is a unitary process which brings about a total integration of human understanding.
Action has meaning only in relationship and without understanding relationship, action on any level will only breed conflict. The understanding of relationship is infinitely more important than the search for any plan of action.