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Spiritual Principles – The Basis for Developing Responsible ‘Individual Reality’
The term ‘responsible’, as used here, brings to mind three images. One entails ownership, that is, control over the item or action. A second entails accountability, that is, liability for an act. And a third entails duty towards others, that is, the awareness of how it will affect other people.
Based on this understanding of what responsibility entails, any serious thinker will have to admit that many of the crises faced by the world today, are due to the fact that the antagonists, in their analysis and conclusions, seldom take all three of these elements into consideration. On the contrary, in our increasingly narcissistic world, primary emphasis is given to control (that is, personal choice and rights), with less…
