If you want to bring meaning and passion to your work and relationships, you need strong values - but are your values healthy or harmful? Are they rooted in a desire to improve the world, or are they based on ignorance, fear, and greed?
The Odd Couple
A few weeks ago U.S. President George W. Bush invited the Dalai Lama to the White House.
President Bush speaks of peace and goes to war; the Dalai Lama speaks of peace and lives in peace. What do you think each man’s lasting legacy will be? Whose words carry more power to capture your imagination?
Armed with a strong set of beliefs, we all have the power to manifest peace and happiness or to create immense human suffering. Here are a few photos of famous people you may know. Each of these people were convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were doing the right thing.
Having strong convictions aren’t enough.
The Blame Game
People that create vast human suffering often make excuses and blame others for their failings. If you talk to 100 inmates at a federal prison, you’ll get 100 excuses and 1000 different people to blame. Don’t play the blame game.
Lasting peace and happiness can never come by forcing others to agree with your values at the end of a gun. In your own life, in your own way, do your actions create happiness or do they create suffering?
Choose your values carefully.
Links to learn more about the people shown in this article:
The 14th Dalai Lama - Tenzin Gyatso
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
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