There is a deepening global hopelessness and despair in the face of the collapse of the systems we could once rely upon.

People ask, “what can I do?”

I was blessed to hear Peruvian spiritual leader Arkan Lushwala discuss the answer.

Speaking about what is happening on Earth right now, many of the conditions of life that we used to take for granted, now are really out of balance. Hopefully we still have time to get back into balance so life may continue.
I travel around the world and meet people and talk to people from all different cultures.
And everywhere people ask, “what can we do?”
The question, “what can we do?”, is the second question.
The first question is “what can we be?”
Because what you can do is a consequence of who you are.
Once you know what you can be, you know what you can do, and we cannot afford wasting time;
We have little time.
We need to be precise now.
When someone sincerely asks, “what can I do?”
my humble answer, the only answer that I find in my heart to be sincere is,
“First find out what you can be.”
Action is extremely necessary at this time.
This is not a time just to talk about it.
The most spiritual thing now is action.
To do something about what’s happening.
To go help where help is needed.
To stand up when we need to stand up, and protect what is being damaged.
And still, this action needs to be born from a place in ourselves that has real talent, real intelligence, real power, real connection to the heart of the Earth, to universal wisdom, so our actions are not a waste of time.
So our actions are precise, our actions are in harmony with the movement, the sacred movement, of that force that wants to renew life here on Earth and make it better for the following generations.

Arkan Lushwala