Ilchi Lee

If at the time I had thought, “Could I make difference in the world by simply helping a stroke victim?” and didn’t go to the park the next day, nothing would ever happen to make my vision come true. I needed to start somewhere. Instead I thought, “Okay. Let’s go step by step. If I can deliver health, happiness, and peace to one person at a time, then others can do it as well and the world will change little by little.”

If you have any awakening within you, the most important next step is to turn it into action. No matter how small the awakening is, if you can keep taking action, you can create something new, something valuable to you.

I have said many times that everyone has greatness within themselves. The same seed that made me wake up early and go to a local park exists within you. This seed is the seed of greatness. If you find it, please view it as the greatest thing, even though it may appear as a very tiny idea. If you criticize, “Oh, that’s not important. That’s not good enough,” and keep erasing these ideas from your mind, the seeds cannot grow.

Even if your first step doesn’t seem to make any difference, what if you keep doing the same thing for 10 years? If you keep planting trees, you will make a thick forest. One seed will become a wheat field.

The important thing to remember is “keep doing it.” When a silk worm starts making a cocoon, it is at first just a short thread. But after some time, she has made a beautiful cocoon, and finally a butterfly is born from it. That’s the beauty and power of all living creatures on the earth, and we humans have that same power.

If we believe in the life within us, if we believe in our greatness and keep acting on our choices, we can create something beautiful.

I learned from teaching in that park that even when we have a great dream and plan in our mind, the actualization of the big dream starts from a small action we can take.