Avoiding Regret: A Daily Practice

When you act in the world against your own conscience your mind becomes disturbed. The action rebounds and hurts you. You feel sorry for having acted thus. In reaction to your own action you suffer regret and remorse. An action creating (more…)

I, Fanatic

The trouble with most folks ain’t so much their ignorance, it’s their knowing as many things which ain’t so.1 Moral development involves shedding immature, inaccurate beliefs and values, and growing into more mature and accurate ones. Consider an analogy. In elementary school, students (more…)

Self-Development: Critical Thinking Matters

In our discussion of social evolution we need sometimes to remember that the very perfection of society must always appear as imperfection; for a highly developed society is dynamic. … A static society … is in a condition of arrested development; (more…)

The Bus Leaves at Six: Use of an Ideal

The need for an ideal and the method of setting an ideal have been described in an earlier post. An ideal is used in the pursuit of self-development, the goal of which is maturity and self-sufficiency, enhanced empathy with others, and (more…)