Inside To Outside

 Someone said, “I don’t meditate much, since I don’t believe in any God.  But I do try to be of service, to be helpful to others.”  Such is this person in recovery from addiction.  Yet they are meditating in the sense that they are working from their insides to their outsides.  Like what?  Well, they are of service to others because first of all they know it will change their insides.  So they are in touch with their inside needs. Second, they have some empathy for others, and that comes from the insides.  Empathy and compassion, thinking of others, is the result of some interior life, even if we don’t formally recognize it.  Plus the energy of the Higher Power does not need a person’s “belief.”  This person used to be a helpless addict, self-centered, and self-willed to the max.  The person did not change all by their own power.  They had none.  Such is addiction.  Happiness spreads from the insides to the outsides.