World's Sorrows

Q: All I want to know is how to deal with the world’s sorrows.
M: You have created them out of your own desires’ and fears, you deal with them. All is due to your having forgotten your own being. Having given reality to the picture on the screen, you love its people and suffer for them and seek to save them. It is just not so. You must begin with yourself. There is no other way.
Work, of course. There is no harm in working.
Nisargdatta Maharaj