Guest guest Posted September 24, 2005 Report Share Posted September 24, 2005 Hi Beloveds, Appropriate and not unlike another step in the Bodhisattva Vow. What say ye? ar - earl engelhardt truevision Saturday, September 24, 2005 12:47 PM [TrueVision] Fw: Thought for the Day 9/24/05 I know that today's thought will ruffle some feathers, but I believe this needs to be said and said now: We forget about the deep connection between spirituality and the real world. Somehow we have become convinced that spirituality and politics, for instance, are to be kept at a good healthy distance from each other when spiritual principles, above all, should be guiding our practical lives. We have isolated spirituality to a place of irrelevance. There is a big difference between being guided by spiritual values and being dictated to by a religion. Morality is defined by my dictionary as being concerned with right conduct. Right conduct would be the actions that are beneficial to others, that do not hurt people. When we are hurting people we are being immoral. Look around. Do you see any actions that are being taken that will harm people? If you do it is immoral. Morality has been degraded to a connotation of supervising sexual conduct when the real meaning of it is care for people, kindness, love, good works. Look at the price gouging that is about to occur with gasoline prices. That is an immoral act about to occur. Should we not all take spiritual action, do the right thing? A rise from the current almost three dollars to five or even six dollars will harm many people. It is an immoral act. The spiritual action is to speak to your senators and congressmen and ask them to rise above whatever political principles they are following and act in a spiritual manner. Freezing gasoline prices would be a spiritual act. Think about it. It's simple. It's the right thing to do. We need to start doing right things. And we need to take spiritual action right now, today. Pick up the phone. Tell your representative to assume a spiritual viewpoint and freeze oil and gasoline prices. Act spiritually in the world. This is not political. This is humane, spirit in action in the real world. We need to care for each other in a time of crisis. Let's start really watching out for each other. Emanations 2005 by John MacEnulty 9/24/05, St. Louis, MO Emanations is now a BLOG at http://emanations.blog-city.com/ Web site address: http://Emanations.net/ Donations in support of these writings may be sent to John MacEnulty, PO Box 1925, St. Louis MO 63118 or go to the website and use PayPal to make a gift. And if you are receiving this as a forward you may for free by simply going to eman8tions and jumping through their hoops, or you can write to eman8tions and I'll add you myself. All original poems or compositions are submitted under copyright by the author. We have come together to share as a loving family. Should you wish to reproduce any of the submissions in any form, it is requested that you give credit to the author and get written permission to do so. All ideas and/or commentary represented herein reflect the personal interpretation and understanding of the individual True Vision member/author. The individual posting the message is solely responsible for acknowledging the source/author of the material posted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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