Friday, January 25, 2008

Questions to ask and thought to consider....

The universe does not favor the greedy, the dishonest,
the vicious, although on the mere surface it may sometimes
appear to do so; it helps the honest, the magnanimous, the
virtuous. All the great teachers of the ages have declared
this in varying forms, and to prove and know it a person has
but to persist in making him or herself more and more
virtuous by lifting up his or her thoughts.

James Allen

Questions to consider:

Why does it seem to us like so many people
"get away" with so much?

How much of this perspective comes from impatience--thinking
that "rewards" and "punishments" should happen much more
quickly than they do?

Can we be sure that people who hurt others truly learn
how harmful their actions are?

For further thought:

Despite all the doom and gloom that constantly assaults our senses, there is a way for us to ransom our lives and reclaim our futures: it consists in turning away from the world to recognize what in life makes us truly happy. For each of us, what that is will be different. But once we obtain this inner knowledge, we will possess the ability to transform our outer world. "You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself," the pilot and writer Beryl Markham reminds us. We cannot let this continue to occur.

Sarah Ban Breathnach


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