Our mind is the world's greatest problem. We must urgently learn to change it.

 

"Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and others will alter towards him."  -- James Allen   (1864-1912) Author  Source: As a Man Thinketh, 1902

"To ignore the evidence, and hope that it cannot be true, is more an evidence of mental illness.''  -- William Blase

"A healthy mind observes and questions itself. This is the path to inner peace and happiness. Don't believe everything you think."  - Vironika Tugaleva 2014? 

"There can be no health without mental health." Rawle Andrews Jr., Esq. Executive Director American Psychiatric Association Foundation. July 2023

"The foundation of all Mental Illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering." Carl Jung

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”   Jiddu Krisnamurti   December 28, 2007 

‘Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.’ – Carl Jung

“We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.” - Albert Einstein, 1934

“People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.”  ― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

“Some online games have become the new opium to poison the growth of teenagers,” Yu Xinwen, a vice president of Guangzhou University 2018

"All our lauded technological progress - our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." - Albert Einstein

"US surgeons are killing themselves at an alarming rate. One decided to speak out  The grueling profession has long kept silent about mental distress. After losing a friend and quietly grappling with illness, Carrie Cunningham found a new way to save lives."  by Christina Frangou  26 Sep 2023  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/26/surgeons-suicide-doctors-physicians-mental-health 

World in mental health crisis of 'monumental suffering', say experts:  Lancet report says 13.5 million lives could be saved every year if mental illness addressed.   Sarah Boseley,  Health editor, Wed 10 Oct 2018. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/oct/09/world-mental-health-crisis-monumental-suffering-say-experts 

800,000 people kill themselves every year. What can we do?  Lady Gaga and Tedros Adhanom   Oct. 19, 2018   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/09/lady-gaga-mental-health-global-emergency-suicide  

SOLUTION:

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. This is the interrelated structure of reality.”  Martin Luther King Jr.

 

“Everything is connected, everything is interdependent, so everything is vulnerable.... And that’s why this has to be a more than whole of government, a more than whole of nation [effort]. It really has to be a global effort....” Jen Easterly. Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency director 2023.  CISA is our nation’s newest federal agency established in 2018.  It was hacked by a foreign agents in early 2025.