thanks @oudekaas I will have to read Tom Campbell, someone else mentioned that before. good intent is one of the keys of life, perhaps the universe !
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thanks @oudekaas I will have to read Tom Campbell, someone else mentioned that before. good intent is one of the keys of life, perhaps the universe !
Ok love to hear what you think about his work. Yes I agree that it seems that those ingredients increase your chances of living a happier lifestyle versus being selfish and hateful.
Yet most of us know this, but seem to forget, including me,
Which means to me, we all still have much to learn in that respect.
It is funny how people almost always know that when you cross a road you have to look 4 times in order to not get hit by a car. Meaning they hardly ever skip this step as it is life threatening, yet showing good intent and love all the time, which should be easy to do unless overcome by fear, doesn’t always come as natural.
We don’t seem to understand it’s importance well enough, to just always live by it. Yet it forms your life and environment and should be right up there, just below your survival instincts 😄
I guess it's down to our tribal past. We no doubt lived in small family groups and outsiders would have been a threat to our survival and would not have been tolerated in our immediate sphere. 10,000 years of civilisation and we're still learning that others are a part of us and if we'd like to be the advanced beings we like to think we are, we have a long way to go in terms of altruism, self reflection and pragmatism. If we make it through the next few hundred years, hopefully our need to grapple with each other for resources will have been finally negated and we'll be satisfied through technology. I also see a strange possible future where the divisions in society and the greed become amplified to the point where we'd be shocked now to see it. Elysium