Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world;
today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
-Buddha's teaching.
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Years ago, a young swami/sanyaasi had written in a very small Geeta book on a page:
You cannot change the world, but you can change yourself; and handed over it to me as a gift when I had gone to see him before going to Canada for my Phd studies.
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