When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one.
Not the dogma, not the books, not the scriptures, what matters is your attitude to life.
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
In an evolutionary context, development has no end. That means we can always develop more, further, higher and deeper. In Traditional Enlightenment, it’s possible to become ‘fully enlightened’. In Buddhism, they call it ‘cessation’ or ‘the end of becoming’. Evolutionary Enlightenment is about infinite becoming for eternity.
The best way to find your self is to lose yourself in the service of others… All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
