If we asked ourselves every day, “What is the most essential?” we would quickly eliminate the extraneous in our lives. I can define “worthless expenditures” as wasted time, cheap goods, toxic people, imbalanced emotions, outworn concepts, etc.
Marketers are adept at stimulating desire through our emotions, primarily fear.
Developing discernment is the key to determining true worth and the fruits of our labor.
A Teacher once spoke of the danger of comfort. “Comfort is the coffin of the soul.”
I interpreted this to mean that in comfort, we can become complacent; when we are complacent, we are asleep; when we are asleep, we are open to manipulation; when we allow ourselves to be manipulated; we are as sheep.
When we are sheep, forces, that do not have our best interests at heart, will use us for their own gain.
Thus, I’ve summarized the history of mankind.
Is the returning of obscene bonuses a true sign of “all for one and one for all?” Coercion is not cooperation. True sacrifice springs from the heart and desire to do good. The word “goodwill” has a deep, esoteric meaning. Think about it.
Who is willing to sacrifice for his neighbor without thought for himself?
While this global recession reaches beyond class, material obstacles on the path of Service are not the most difficult.
When you strip away your possessions, your comforts, your ideas of what it means to be human, ask yourself this: “Who am I now?” Can you face yourself with grace and humor?
When we broaden our consciousness, then we will have the answer.
