How to "Change the World"

​It's comical. Every week I get some kind of email that's asking me to help "CHANGE THE WORLD." It might come from Omeleto.com, Godvine.com, StumbleUpon.com or somewhere else. Today, the message was from LinkedIn. They told me to begin changing the world by "starting with a city," then linked to a TED talk. 

Now, I'm not demeaning LinkedIn, TED or anyone else. But I do have to wonder how many times each week I can be invited to participate in something that will "change the world." C'mon people. Get real.

Can any one person or group of people change the entire world?  And if they could, what would they change it to? Presumably, it would be something better than what it is now. But what? And who would define "better?" 

If someone's going to tell me how to change the world, I'll want very clear instructions. I'll want to know what it's changing into before I do anything.

So as I sit here reading the email, a thought occurs to me.

Instead of trying to change the world, let's just change our minds about the world. Let's trade in our silly ego-ruled minds for the mind of the Holy Spirit. He doesn't ask us to change the world. Not at all. He leads us down a path of forgiveness for all we seem to perceive. 

While the ego simply projects, Holy Spirit teaches forgiveness. Why try to change the minds of 7 billion people when all you need do is change your own? 

From the Course, Lesson 132:

Perhaps you think you did not make the world but came unwillingly to what was made already, hardly waiting for your thoughts to give it meaning. Yet in truth you found exactly what you looked for when you came. There is no world apart from what you wish, and herein lies your ultimate release. Change but your mind on what you want to see, and all the world must change accordingly.

Ideas leave not their source. This central theme is often stated in the text and must be borne in mind if you would understand the L e s s o n  for today. It is not pride which tells you that you made the world you see and that it changes as you change your mind. But it is pride that argues you have come into a world quite separate from yourself, impervious to what you think, and quite apart from what you chance to think it is.

There is no world! This is the central thought the course attempts to teach. Not everyone is ready to accept it, and each one must go as far as he can let himself be led along the road to truth. He will return and go still farther, or perhaps step back a while and then return again.