Healing

When a child is helped to translate his "ghost" into a curtain, his "monster" into a shadow, and his "dragon" into a dream, he is no longer afraid and laughs happily at his own fear. You my children are afraid of your brothers and your Father and of yourselves. But you are merely deceived in them.
(A Course in Miracles)

You and I have experienced ugliness around us, there is no doubt about that. Yet, there comes a stage in a spiritual aspirant's life when she stamps her foot into the ground and declares "enough, there must be another way". At that point you are half-way home. So will you reach the stage described by the Course in Miracles when you talk to your fuming brother and your very presence and your healing words remind him of his innocence? You will, but in time. Healing your environment is really all about healing yourself. As you start your healing process, the world is healing with you. Shady characters disappear and kinder souls arrive into your life. Keep on chipping away, you will reach the point where you only see shadows where others see monsters. The moment you arrive on the scene,  your light shines the monsters away.