I would even go so far as to say - The only way...to change our life is to make a difference in someone else's life. Even just trying to make a difference in someone else's life changes ours.
If you've reached a dead end, if you're troubled beyond belief, if you've finally, finally arrived at a blank wall reaching up to the skies...
it is time to take yourself in hand - no matter how difficult that proves to be, no matter you just want to pull the covers over your head and block out the day, no matter that you feel you have absolutely no strength in you to even lift your hand, let alone your head....no matter what...
Just make that herculean effort just once. For just one last time find a wee bit of love for yourself...
Get up and go to the poorest of neighborhoods, or an orphanage, or an old people's home, or a school for the less privileged. Talk to the people, see if you can do something to help, just be around if you don't know what to do....the answers will come. Once you look into the eyes of a dispossessed person, a brutalized woman, a hurt child...your life will never be the same again. You will feel energy flowing through you, your mind will start humming with all kinds of solutions and things you can do, and the balance returns to your mind-heart-soul-body......................and you feel healed.
For this is the reality. These are the real people. And these will bring out the real you.
Try it. I have...