Saving Yourself

Saving Yourself

There is only one person

who can save you

and that is yourself.

The only things you need

to save yourself from

are your own

fear and prejudice.

You overcome your

fears and prejudice

by learning to

care for yourself

as Mother Earth

cares for you.

When you learn

to have compassion

for your own shortcomings,

you also learn to have

compassion for the shortcomings

in everyone else

and all the world as well.

As your fears and prejudice

begin to subside

you'll become ever more aware

of many things that

you've been doing right all this time

and many things

that life has been doing for years

to help you along.

A lack of compassion for others

is a sure indication

of a lack of compassion

for yourself.

If you want to do your part

to save the world

you need only to set yourself right

after that everything

will fall into place.

Lighting the bright flames

of love and compassion in yourself

goes far in lighting

the flames of compassion

in all whom

you come into contact with.

In the fullness of time, you'll find

the world doesn't need saving

so much as it needs

to be loved.

Likewise, you'll come to find

that you don't need saving either.

What you need is to love

and to be loved.

Dewey Dirks