"Forcing people to be more 'unselfish'
creates animosity instead of good will. Trying to control selfish others
is a cure worse than the disease. ... In trying to control others, we
find ourselves controlled. We point fingers at the dictators, the
Communists, the politicians, and the international cartels. We are
blithely unaware that our desire to control selfish others creates and
sustains them. Like a stone thrown in a quiet pond, our desire to
control our neighbors ripples outward, affecting the political course of
our community, state, nation, and world. Yet we know not what we do. We
attempt to bend our neighbors to our will, sincere in our belief that
we are benevolently protecting the world from their folly and
short-sightedness. We seek control to create peace and prosperity, not
realizing that this is the very means by which war and poverty are
propagated. In fighting for our dream without awareness, we become the
instruments of its destruction. If we could only see the pattern!"
-- Dr. Mary J. Ruwart
(1949- )
Source: Healing Our World, Introduction.
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Mary.Ruwart.Quote.B967
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