A Corollary to the Golden Rule

I seek to always do what I am asked to do, by anyone, unless I know better.

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Opportunities for healing

Free will makes us ultimately responsible for our own lives, and how they are, and it is the reason we can not blame others for our own sorrows. But it also makes us responsible for the world we live in, because our choices are inputs into the lives of others. When we are care-less, and thought-less, about how our words, our faces and their expressions, affect the people around us, then we are without love, and we decrease the possibility of cultivating the healing power for our neighbors.

Because the truth is -- while our will is definitive, it is not without influence -- and the influence of the love of others we sense in our souls, from the actions and words and energy of others around us, can overwhelm us in a positive way, making it highly probable that we will swing back in an upward direction.

We know it from experience -- how the love of others, or the lack of it -- have influenced it.

Therefore, let us also remember this in the reverse: that we are given every day opportunities for healing others, and they are usually very obvious. God didn't make this difficult, but really easy. Follow your instinct: it is not perfect, but when you have declared from your heart your intention to do good, it gives you an opportunity, from your yet flawed vessel, to be a positive input.

And, what you give to others, you give to yourself!