Take a few steps back from something and it looks different.  A few more, different still.

When the sages instruct us to let go of the world, that's what they mean.  Step back until you see things from a new perspective, over and over and over until you notice you can step completely out of the picture.  'To be in the world but not of it', as one sage put it.

One of the challenges to this is the desire to bring everybody with us.  We can get hung up here.  When we look at the state of the world, or when we see the frustration or pain of anther we want to help.  We feel we cannot go forward because we would be abandoning others and that would be very selfish.

Here's what's going on:

1. The desire you feel to help is real, it's you and it's love.

2. Through their deep desire to help and their realization that we are all One Being, the sages have found another much more powerful way to help.

3. The sage can see as he moves further away, that we are together -One Being- and that each life, each one of us, effects the whole being.  Like the cells in your arm.  Each one has an effect on the whole.  So, if one of the whole becomes open to the flow of life, the source, that one creates a powerful opening that allows the reception of life for the entire organism.

As one person he may only be able to effect a portion of the forearm with this vitalized energy.  But the sage understands it only takes a few openings by a few sages to really change the whole organism.

4. The sage chooses to follow the voice of his soul. And comes to understand that he cannot tune in to his own voice without quieting or disconnecting from the voices of this world.  So he begins the process of focusing on the voice of his Self.

5. And with the desire to help in place, the sage follows the voice of the inner knowing on a path toward a whole new view of himself and his world.

6. The view from this place he's been led to by the inner voice is beautiful.  He no longer considers the chaotic doing, thinking or feeling of others, he only sees their heart, he recognizes the voice of the self that sings freely and beautifully in everybody, the voice that never went away, but was just covered by the chatter of the world.  Now the sage, having tuned himself to that voice within himself, recognizes the same in everyone and everything.

When you meet this person you meet unconditional love.  Love that has given up all conditions and flows freely.  Love who sees who you really are.

This person changes himself, his immediate world, and the greater collective voice in a very powerful way and demonstrates great peace and joy in so doing.