A two month long intensified journey to find some way to deal with a world where vapid influencers, bullying villains, charlatans, hypermasculinity, corporate greed, psychos and genocide lovers seem to triumph over anyone that wants to spread goodness, cooperation, vulnerability, connection, intimacy, tolerance, circumstances in which kids can enjoy carefree childhoods, etc etc etc have led me to these 16 (so far) guidelines or principles. Updated commandments.

Something that am sure builds a foundation for more or less stabile success and happiness.

On the one hand am excited that I’ve found something that appears to me to be the only way to counter evil and find and spread happiness, and on the other hand I am confronted by how terrible I am at applying these principles. There’s some improvement every day now though.

So that’s what’s going on here.

I don’t mind sharing this, because only kind, open-minded people find the time to read a post like this.

1. Kindness in words and actions
2. Compassion for others’ struggles
3. Forgiveness of past hurts
4. Gratitude for life’s blessings
5. Generosity without expectation
6. Wisdom shared to guide others
7. Courage in the face of fear
8. Humility in success
9. Joy that uplifts those around you
10. Truth spoken with love
11. Discipline to refuse any shortcuts to feel temporary bliss
12. The reflex to see the uplifting lesson in everything we encounter
13. Knowing that when we judge others we have condemned ourselves to get a taste of their struggles
14. If we want to see others act differently, we have to change ourselves first
15. The kindness to ask: is this thing or purpose I crave coming from a place of lack or selfishness or would the world benefit from me attaining that?
16. Am I trying to take or am I giving?

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