Allow your suffering as well as your experiences of seeing other people suffer to show you what you think of yourself. Do you think of yourself as someone who can make a difference in the world? Or do you think of yourself as someone who has no power in the world? Do you think of yourself as someone to whom others listen? Or as someone whom others do not see? In other words, use your emotional reactions to the experiences of people suffering, as well as to your own suffering, to show you how you look at yourself because how you look at yourself did not come into being when you first encountered the suffering. You saw yourself this way long before the divorce, separation, death, illness, or painful experience that now occupies your attention. You have looked at yourself this way all your life. Use your experiences of the painful experience that is in your life now, or that has been in your life, or that you fear being in your life, to let you see how you are looking at yourself and if you feel that your view of yourself is not a healthy one, you can change it. You can also consider the possibility that what you do in the world and what you say have impact whether or not you are willing to accept that.

You can also realize that the great souls we admire, such as Mahatma Gandhi, such as Martin Luther King, such as those who are doing so much in their own ways to help others, are souls like you. The difference is that they do not allow themselves to be incapacitated by a self-perception of powerlessness. They assume that their efforts will benefit others and they make efforts to benefit others, each in their own way. You are in a position to observe whether you are a person who feels that you can contribute to the world regardless of what you are experiencing in the moment, or feels that you cannot. In fact, you can. It is only your perception that prevents you.

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