January 30, 2012
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Principles for a New Life
If your ultimate good is salvation then no one can truly harm you, for no one can take that good away from you. It is always in your power to do what will move you closer to it.
Be before seeming or you will seem without being.
Your life should be good for the lives of those around you. No matter what time period you were born into, or what people you were born around, you should be a variable that always makes things better.
When you feel damaged the challenge is to not seek damage in return. Remember: no one can truly harm you.
Love means you try to prove yourself wrong when you think someone else has some particular fault.
I long greatly for the day when the value of all things will be revealed.
I am what is wrong with the world.
Someday, death will repaint everything with new colors. Someday we will see how blind we were. If only any of this were easy.
Comments (2)
Some of it gets easier, with practice. Spiritual training, if you will, builds spiritual muscle just as physical training builds physical muscle. The challenge is to seek good in return, that’s where the meat of the matter always is for me. It’s not enough that I not seek to harm the one who harmed me. My goal for myself is to seek to love the ones who harmed me. More challenge = more reward
“If your ultimate good is salvation then no one can truly harm you, for no one can take that good away from you. It is always in your power to do what will move you closer to it.”
This is the greatest, out of all you mentioned.