the spiritual path to Ascension
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Self-respect is your response (honouring) (giving due dignity) to yourself. Valuing respect is kin to esteem, admiration, veneration, reverence, and honour, while regarding something as utterly worthless or insignificant or disdaining or having contempt for it is incompatible with respecting it. When we respect something, we heed its call, accord it its due, acknowledge its claim to our attention.
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We had earlier written of foundations and elements of being an Ethical Thinker. There is moral competence, comprising of self-identity, discernment, effective moral behaviour and personal conscience. We move on to moral agency, the power to act in a respectful and responsible manner.
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In our series on Performance Character we have looked to Performance Character and Ethical Thinking. In the transition to moral agency, we go over the foundations of ethical thinking and some go-to strategies for ethical action.
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When we look to performance character, one critical element is ethical thinking, and the evidence we have of a strong, moral foundation. Character is evinced from decisions and judgement, and good judgement is based on a good morality, a good conscience. These in turn lead to a life well lived, a life of respect and integrity. What is the make-up of ethical thinking, the components?
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The Adventures in Human Values™ children’s books are based on simple, yet powerful stories centering on human values. Each book is beautifully illustrated and contains positive messages for kids to help them become heroes and change the world around them. The first four series of 9 books are available for reading.
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It is always good to keep in mind what it means to be human and the purpose of human life. Children are not born with digital devices attached to their bodies, nor their brains. The influence of digital media on children lessens reliance on the Soul within. As you read this article, keep in mind that intelligence, memory and nous all come from the intellect, which derives over 80% of its energy from the Soul. What is more important? The soul and the purpose of human life, or the brain drain of excessive digital engagement?
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Central to social competence is the ability to take another person’s perspective and to examine a situation from the view and feelings of the other. This also includes the skill of learning from experience, and applying learning to changes in social situations, sometimes called ‘transfer gain’. Social competence also radiates out from us by way of energy: our thoughts, our feelings, our actions affect all in our environment, and all on our planet. Indeed, even those on the astral are affected by our social competence. Verily, social competence is a foundation of true humanness.
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In modern speech, there is a topic called ”delayed gratification”, where a person puts off or forgoes satisfaction of wants and desires in order to reach a greater goal that they have set for themselves. When such a person reaches their goal, others look and wonder, or perhaps say, ‘he or she was lucky’. A tidy mind focussed on the big goals of life (that have been laid down) can easily set priorities and make many small sacrifices to meet the goal in mind.
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Dreams are inspired by the soul. Artists and artisans, writers and poets, musicians and singers all take birth to bring forth a dream and so inspire humankind to higher heights. We should have our dreams. We should know the place of love and care for our neighbour, and the guest. We should know what attracts us and why, what are the elements in this attraction, this inspiration? Does it lift the soul up to embrace its source, does it help us to know the Source within us? These are important questions that reveal the existence of the Soul.
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All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts. In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute. A man’s weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man’s. They are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another. His condition is also his own, and not another man’s. His suffering and his happiness are evolved from within. As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.
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