Question: Should we concern ourselves with the world if the world is going downhill and we are trying to climb uphill?
Sri Chinmoy: In order to lift somebody, you have to be one inch higher than he is. If you feel that you are secure, then lift up the world. If you are not secure and you try to lift up someone else, then he will pull you down.
Sri Chinmoy, Great Masters and the Cosmic Gods, Agni Press, 1977