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The World Needs a Spiritual Revolution
and it has to start with you.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein
Every day for the past five months, I have been growing more intense about changing the world.
I have watched some of the brilliant ContraPoints episodes and familiarized myself with socialist ideas. I have been engaged in the Earth Strike protests, telling everyone who’d listen that climate change is the most burning issues of our time. I have argued that we need more feminism, less capitalism, more compassion and less greed.
More often than not, I have been playing my part in reinforcing the narrative of the fear. And I don’t blame myself. We are living in times that The New York Times columnist David Brooks called “an era defined by fear.”
It is all too easy these days to either overlook the fear that drives our most important conversations — or even, to see it fear as the best driver of the necessary change. The latter was apparent, for example, in one of Greta Thunberg’s most popular speeches:
“ I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel…
