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Today's
quotation:
Every good that you do, every good
that you say, every good thought you
think, vibrates on and on and never ceases. The evil remains only
until
it is overcome by good, but the good remains forever.
Peace Pilgrim
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Today's
Meditation:
We're all
able to do good things, even if we do so on different
levels. One person's good act may affect thousands
of people, while another's may affect two or three.
And that's okay-- a good act is a good act, and when we put
more goodness into the world we're contributing to the
positive energy of life, to the goodness that affects us
all, all the time. The choice is always ours to add
more goodness to the world, and we're all capable of doing
so.
Somehow
when we're young, many of us learn that goodness is akin
to weakness-- that when we do good deeds, we're showing
that we're not strong enough. The truth is, though,
that doing good takes more strength, more resilience, more
perseverance, than doing bad. Doing bad is easy-- it
takes little thought or consideration, and it usually has
immediate results that favor the person doing it.
But it contributes negative energy to the world, and it
doesn't help anyone to grow or to develop or to become
better than they were. Doing good, on the other
hand, helps people to see and feel in the long term, with
patience and foresight that help them to grow into the
people they were meant to be.
We
often see the world and treat other people in the same
ways that we see and treat ourselves. If I see
myself as good, with lots of possibility and potential,
then I can look at the world in the same way, and treat
the world with kindness and compassion. We can
spread goodness through our deeds and our words, and we
can help others to see just how beautiful this world and
its inhabitants are, rather than making them feel down and
trampled upon and hopeless.
If I
can focus my energies on becoming a good person, then I
can be a person who spreads goodness in the world-- and the
world right now is in desperate need of goodness rather
than evil, positive rather than negative. I want to
be one of the people who bring others up, who give them
hope and who help them to cope rather than one of those
who bring people down and try to keep them down. At
the end of my life I hope to look back and be able to say
that I spread goodness rather than evil-- that I helped
others rather than hurt them.
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