VIRTUES AND VALUES
How soon do we start learning virtues and values......probably from the womb... From the time our brains start recording all things around us. What is the value of virtues ? The most important is probably that it keeps us above the dirt and degradations of life. It keeps us on the paths of light where dirt and dishonesty cannot be covered up and hidden and therefore we remain free in life. We don't become caught in the nets of the powers of darkness, ending up with many regrets and sorrows. It is a terrible thing to be found in a position where we are expected to do wrong to cover up an indiscretion or mistake we have made. All that is needed is just once and once we fall into that trap we are bombarded over and over and over in a never ending onslaught of bribery, blackmail and corruption dragging us deep into the gutters of life.......and this is not an easy place from which to escape....there is a very high price....our name, our honour, our respect, including our self respect, possibly our job, even marriage....it is a pit of hell to fall into and far too little stress is placed upon this in our early education. We need to learn from very, very young not to hide things, not to have fear to expose our fears, not to be afraid to ask questions, to freely show our emotions and that is why love as a discipline is the wise choice to make....we go back to the cot or pram....crying to no response.....there is no help....no one comes when we cry...we wait and wait and a minute for a scared baby is like a day....it's very, very long to wait. Already here we learn a lesson on mistrust, doubt, insecurity......rather frightening.... The main purpose of virtues, morals, etc is to keep us free....out of the gutters and dirt and it by no means makes us prudes or boring....it simply keeps our wings free to fly, there are few things more frustrating than being controlled by someone else and being totally helpless to do anything about it....unless we revert to crime, which makes us even worse than them.....we can't dance with evil and not become evil.....©
Tomorrow we will do a little breakdown on virtues and see how easy it actually is to live by them......
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