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Today's
Meditation:
I believe that we have a truly disastrous shortage of true
leaders these days. From what I see, our world has
become full of so-called "leaders" who are more
interested in helping themselves out than in truly
leading, in truly helping others to become better and
stronger, in truly giving all that they have so that
others may flourish. We seem to have a wealth of
people who are in leadership positions to help themselves
out, and a dearth of people who are in leadership
positions in order to serve the greater good.
And so what? What can we do about this? Well,
first of all, I believe it's important that we be able to
recognize a true leader when we see one, for that would
mean that we could also recognize a non-leader when we see
one, and act accordingly. We need to support those
people who are trying to help others, and withdraw or
withhold our support from those who are only in leadership
positions, but who are not real leaders who are working
for the common good.
Why, you might ask? Simply because we know that if
we're working for the common good by supporting others who
are doing the same, we're contributing to the welfare and
well-being of everyone, not just an elite few. And
on the contrary, if we support the self-serving people,
we're contributing to the damage that they're doing, and
we cannot live full lives if we're contributing to
damaging this world, on any level. And just as
importantly, when we find ourselves in leadership roles,
it's important that we do all that we can for the common
good so that we're contributing to the positive in the
world, for then we'll be living up to our potential to
contribute rather than simply take.
We don't want society to stand still. We want it to
grow and develop and become more and better tomorrow than
it was today, don't we? And we can help to provide
leadership in positive and uplifting ways-- and we can
support others who are doing their best to do the
same. For we want to contribute to the world and all
that's in it, not simply take from that world.
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