We all need to see ourselves as a tiny screw in a carburetor. Picture that car in Death Valley in the heat of the summer. Without that seeminging insignificant screw in the carburetor we could end up at the end of the line.
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The only way to truly defeat what we see as rampant immorality (deliberately violating the principles of right and wrong) and its corollaries, hedonism, greed, and theft is for each of us to work on our own characters.
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We are all to blame for shortcuts. We are a body of people, not just little islands of self.For example, we have a heart problem right now. Getting the arteries reamed out every other year does nothing, but if we stop eating the deadly material called, "its the other guys fault," we will perish collectively.
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Here are things that I am personally working on:
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1.) impatience
2.) giving
3.) absolute integrity
4.) fearless optimism
5.) no gossip at all, zero (gossip is like an arrow that you shoot from the tongue and you cannot go back and repair the damge once it has left the string).
6.) forgiveness despite the fact that you may be justified according to the moment, but it is a tapestry that you cannot understand when you have your nose up to it.
7.) finally, real love for one another. Not the fake fellowship garbage that you only proffer if it isn't to difficult. But the kind that is painful to give because the "self" voice is louder than the good inclination.
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