"Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give."
-- David R. Hawkins
"M: Why do you worry about the world before taking care of yourself? You want to save the world, don't you? Can you save the world before saving yourself? And what means being saved? Saved from what? From illusion."
"M: Millions eat bread, but few know all about wheat. And only those who know can improve the bread. Similarly, only those who know the self, who have seen beyond the world, can improve the world. Their value to private persons is immense, for they are their only hope of salvation. What is in the world cannot save the world; if you really care to help the world you must step out of it."
"M: To help others, one must be beyond the need of help."
"M: The only help worth giving is freeing from the need for further help. Repeated help is no help at all. Do not talk of helping another, unless you can put him beyond all need of help.
Q: How does one go beyond the need of help? And can one help another to do so?
M: When you have understood that all existence, in separation and limitation, is painful, and when you are willing and able to live integrally, in oneness with all life, as pure being, you have gone beyond all need of help. You can help another by precept and example and, above all, by your being. You cannot give what you do not have and you don't have what you are not. You can only give what you are -- and of that you can give limitlessly."
-- Nisargadatta Maharaj
Raising one's
Level of Consciousness is probably the easiest and best way to contribute to the world in general. All the multitudinous problems of the world come from one source, which is the human ego. Transcending the ego creates a pathway in consciousness that allows others to transcend their egos more easily. Through spiritual growth, your energy field radiates outward to all of humanity and blesses everybody just by your existence. The collective suffering and karma of mankind gets tremendously reduced through one's own spiritual growth and enlightenment.
Just think of all the great avatars of mankind (Jesus Christ, Buddha, Krishna, etc.) and how much good they have done for mankind -- if we can be like them, we can definitely change the world for the better
