Internal Revolution

Good point! Why didn't I think of that!? It makes perfect sense. How can one think of changing the world if he, himself, hasn't experienced an internal change of significant proportion? Mr. Gandhi did beg us to "be the change you want to see in the world." Something of gigantic value is to be experienced firsthand before anything of even a small percentage of that value is to be expected of the world. An internal revolution precedes an external one. To know the pain of suffering and to know the height of ecstasy and everything in between are a pre-requisite to saying anything to anyone. To know death and aliveness constitute a requirement to voicing anything to anyone. Search within this body and this being first and the entire humanity is revealed. After that, the dust around all creatures settles. Visibility exponentially increases and walking is closer to flying. 

Our friends, the Beatles, sing "You say you want a revolution. Well, you know, we all want to change the world." There are a million and one problems with everything and everyone else. While a likelihood, the real conflict lies within, making up the problems of "everything," as each one makes up the collective. 

And so the previous statement stands: "Why didn't I think of that!?" Internal revolution and personal transformation first. Then the fruits of persistent labor may fall and the seeds may spread in the wind. How lovely.