James Eilers

Poet ("self-righteous" in the one text should be "self-righteousness") ,Oakland, California

9 Beliefs discovered | 8 Totals Votes

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Humans will disagree on many matters, but it should not cause destructive reactions that jeopardize peace.
Economic life too often involves the oppression of some people by other people
Everyone needs to be alert to how we are subjected to psychological manipulation on all sides
Change is the one constant, and should not be seen as a threat.

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Beyond somber and serious rules and advice, people should know how to lighten up.
A review of the daily news reveals that behind every issues are people who are convinced that they are right, and often willing to kill to prove their point. There seems a universal notion that self-righteousness is a virtue, while it is actually poisonous.
Most wise people see the ill effect it has when people wander away from an important sense of the Now.
What is more poisonous to our lives than comparing our lives to those of others, and the resentment that may cause, leading to the sickness of envy.
Two conditions that are the chief sources of human misery and turmoil, the greatest barriers to human progress and health, should be primary and ongoing commandments to work always to eliminate poverty and ignorance

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