“I can change the world
With my own two hands
Make a better place
With my own two hands
Make a kinder place.”
With My Own Two Hands.
Song lyrics, Diamonds on the Inside (2003)
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Source: The Islamic Declaration (1970), p. 31.
“The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.”
“If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.”
Source: Song Man in the Mirror
Context: I'm starting with the man in the mirror
I'm asking him to change his ways
And no message could have been any clearer
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change
"Proof of an External World," Proceedings of the British Academy 25 (1939).
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 25
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
Context: I think that if we are going to reform the world, and make it a better place to live in, the way to do it is not with talk about relationships of a political nature, which are inevitably dualistic, full of subjects and objects and their relationship to one another; or with programs full of things for other people to do. I think that kind of approach starts it at the end and presumes the end is the beginning. Programs of a political nature are important end products of social quality that can be effective only if the underlying structure of social values is right. The social values are right only if the individual values are right. The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. <!-- p. 304
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