Love of self and love of others.
The age old 'ornery subject of the selfish society is raised nearly every day in my local newspaper. Usually prompted by some financial crisis or business taking advantage of others, the priests and soothsayers protesting (a little too much i think) about declining morals.
George Pell in Sydney is often heard claiming we need religious instruction in schools otherwise children will never know morality.
Children learn morality in the schoolyard. When their lunch money is stolen they learn it is not a good thing. If their parents and fellow students show by example that is the case they will carry it through for the rest of their lives.
As for love and marriage, mostly we fall out of these manufactured states because of the all too human condition of unrealistic expectations. The dreams we have as children, often instilled and/or encouraged by our upbringing, frequently fail us. If we are not adaptable we may build up incredibly strong resentments born of these perceived fractures in our lives.
Our job is to live as thoroughly as possible in an impossibly complicated world of projection, imagination, expectation, hope, longing beside the reality of rational thought... and that's just on my side. Add your world and the worlds of all the people in my life and the complications are magnificently multiplied. I say magnificently, because as difficult and complicated as it usually is, usually it is pretty magnificent... if we can but withstand the journey.
For more help book and appointment: Go to www.choosingchange.com.au
George Pell in Sydney is often heard claiming we need religious instruction in schools otherwise children will never know morality.
Children learn morality in the schoolyard. When their lunch money is stolen they learn it is not a good thing. If their parents and fellow students show by example that is the case they will carry it through for the rest of their lives.
As for love and marriage, mostly we fall out of these manufactured states because of the all too human condition of unrealistic expectations. The dreams we have as children, often instilled and/or encouraged by our upbringing, frequently fail us. If we are not adaptable we may build up incredibly strong resentments born of these perceived fractures in our lives.
Our job is to live as thoroughly as possible in an impossibly complicated world of projection, imagination, expectation, hope, longing beside the reality of rational thought... and that's just on my side. Add your world and the worlds of all the people in my life and the complications are magnificently multiplied. I say magnificently, because as difficult and complicated as it usually is, usually it is pretty magnificent... if we can but withstand the journey.
For more help book and appointment: Go to www.choosingchange.com.au
