What Does it Mean That We Are Responsible for the Whole World?

Our responsibility for the whole world stems from our original state where we were all connected together as one great desire to receive the delight and pleasure that nature bestowed to us.

We since broke apart from that perfectly unified and eternal state in our perception, but we are gradually evolving to realize once again how we all belong to one great big system. It can be likened to feeling like we belong to a single global family, however the reality is that we are much closer in our original state than even the depiction of ourselves as a family.

When we develop the sensation of this closeness, we will then feel how we are each responsible for the whole world. Then, when we all feel responsible for the whole world, we will indeed see a new world.

If we each, suddenly, for instance, by some magical command, wished to see everyone else as our friends, the world would definitely change. However, since we do not believe in this because it seems too unrealistic, we continue business as usual.

This “magical command” can come about if we develop a sincere desire and plea for help from what is beyond our own human powers — the upper force of love and bestowal, the positive force dwelling in nature. This force is what can change us so that we feel the pain of the whole world, through which we come to relate differently to the world.

By holding onto the upper force and requesting it to act in its positive manner in the world, we can never break down from feeling such pain. That request then becomes our key action, i.e., an ongoing request to make the world better, that the very force that made the world bad should make it good.