look inward & vote!

too many still look outward, 

some believing in the illusion

of victory and of victorious power, 

others in treaties and laws, 

and others in the overthrow of the existing order. 

but too few look inward, to their own selves, 

and fewer still ask themselves 

whether the ends of human society 

might not best be served if each man 

tried to abolish the old order in himself, 

and to practice in his own person 

and in his own inward state those precepts, 

those victories which he preaches on every street corner, 

instead of always expecting these things of his fellow men.

every individual needs revolution, inner division, 

overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, 

but not by forcing them upon his neighbors 

under the hypocritical cloak of christian love 

or the sense of social responsibility 

or any other beautiful euphemism 

for unconscious urges to personal power.

individual self-reflection, 

return of the individual to the ground of human nature, 

to his deepest being with its individual and social destiny - 

here is the beginning of a cure for that blindness 

which reigns at the present hour.

                       ~ carl jung  1918

please and thanks!