Developing compassion for Congress and politicians is a good way to begin practicing the new social activism if you want to make effective changes in the world. Perhaps the most startling new insight of all is that there is no other way to effectively change the world.

All I want to do is change the world.

If we can be the best people we are as individuals, then that's the way to change the world.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

You have a mind. And you have other people. Start with those, and change the world.