If you believe that your opponent is evil,
And you believe that it is acceptable to play as dirty as your opponent,
Then you have justified yourself in being evil.
Justification for Evil
May You Never be Content
May you never be content.
May you embrace the spirit of the chase.
May you always be improving on your character.
May you be content with forever journeying.
May you always progress.
It is in accepting the eternity of growth, improvement, and progression that we surrender the need to be perfect, and that we gain joy in achieving each new portion of it.
If You Can Change One
If you can clean up your house, you can clean up your bad habits and build good ones instead.
If you can build good habits, you can build new friendships and cure your loneliness.
If you can cure your loneliness, you can cure your boredom and find something good to do.
If you can find something good to do, you can find something good to help others.
If you can help others, you can help your home have more peace and bring order to it.
If you can bring order to your home, you can bring order to your mind and calm it down.
If you can calm your mind down, you can calm your lusts and free your spirit.
If you can free your spirit, you can free the downtrodden and given them hope.
If you can give hope, you can give attention to what really matters.
If you can give attention to what really matters, you can give attention to God and praise Him.
If you can praise God, you can praise what is good in you and let Him purify your soul.
If you can let Him purify your soul, you can let Him purify your family and clean up your house.
If you can change but one, you can change them all.
Do Not Long for Yesterday
Do not long to escape the troubles of today by a return to yesterday. For it was the culture and choices of “the good old days” that led us to where we are today. The only hope is in building a future that is neither like yesterday nor today, but that has learned from the mistakes of both.
Inevitable Universal Truth
Universal truth is inevitable. If there was no universal truth, then that would be the universal truth.
Given that universal truth is inevitable, all that remains is for us to find out what it is and align ourselves to it.
Weak vs Strong Kindness
There is both a weak kindness and a strong kindness. The weak kindness is based on fear. It is where one allows oneself to be consumed by another, or by the masses. This individual gives others exactly what they want to have and tells them exactly what they want to hear. The individual does this because he is afraid of being rejected and left alone. His integrity is secondary to being accepted.
The strong kindness, on the other hand, is only possible when one is firmly his own self, deeply rooted, and full of integrity. Such a one knows his standards, and does not violate them for another, but he will give of himself when it is aligned with his principles. Thus, this person gives “kindness” on his own terms, and when he does so by sharing a part of his own self. It is a sacrifice made not by compulsion, but with true compassion and altruistic motives.
The weak kindness satiates in the moment, but it reinforces bad behavior and ultimately only hurts the world. Only the strong kindness helps.
Mystery Before Answer
Before you can receive the answer, you must accept the mystery
I Know vs I Do
There is a great chasm between “I know that I should” and “I am actually doing it.”
Within that distance is all the struggle of conscience, the transformation of coward into hero, the measure of one’s very soul. In it we see the difference between a society that is flourishing and one that is decaying, between depravity and morality, and the life or death of the world. All of it turns when we finally act from what we already know in our hearts.
The Devilish Deflection
Anything that follows these statements is devilish and designed to harm mankind.
- “Yes, I know that’s the commandment, but…”
- “Yes, that is true, but…”
- “Yes, that’s what the scriptures say, but…”
Whatever the following justification is, it probably sounds very nice, though. It probably invokes certain virtues. But it is still authored by Satan. For anything that would excuse against God’s word cannot be of God. Anything that would justify sin has to be of the Devil.
And given our particular upbringing, that might be hard to accept. We may have been indoctrinated by our society such that we cannot see God’s word as being for the best, and yet in the full perspective of things it always will be. And the excuses that takes us away from His word might sound for the best, but in the full perspective of things they will always cause pain and suffering.
Finding Balance
They say, “moderation in all things,” yet none can agree what the properly moderated view is. In the face of differing opinions and contradictions, there are a couple points that can help provide clarity.
- There is a correct balance. It can be tempting to just assume that there is no proper moderation at all. That all positions are equally valid. But these perspectives are not enlightenment, they are giving up on the search for truth. Deep down, all of us know that there is such a thing as being too passive and too aggressive, too sexual and too prudish, too reckless and too risk averse. And if there is too much of each extreme, then there must be some place in the middle that is better. That better place might be a range, and it might shift a little from one person to another, but it is there and it can be found.
- You will never have universal agreement. When you do find the correct level of moderation, it would be nice if everyone would agree that how you are living is right, but that will never happen. Some will always still say you are too much and others will say that you are too little. If you try to align yourself by committee, you will be jerked from side-to-side in a never-ending tug-of-war. In the end, you must depend on your own conscience to know if you are too fat or too thin, too quiet or too loud, too ambitious or too reserved. And never forget that both excesses are real, and both have people trying to pull you into them.
Spiritual Wanderings 