A wise person once pointed out to me that that we "must heal OURSELVES before we can heal the WORLD."

Doing the right thing often requires deeper knowledge of ourselves... which means we have to reach a place when we are ready to look inside ourselves, rather than look outside for our sense of what to do next. It's easy to follow others blindly like sheep... not so much to strike out in our own direction because we know it's the good thing to do.