We should be willing to take action, without waiting to see whether or not anyone will be there to help us.
Only those who are humble can receive God's grace. In someone who perceives God's presence in everything, there is no room for the ego. So the first quality we need to develop within ourselves is humility.
Meditation and studying the scriptures are like two sides of a coin. The engraving on the coin is Selfless Service and that is what gives it its real value.
Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.
What is needed today is that we begin to value Mother Nature as much as we value our own mother who gave birth to us.