Spiritual Vision

 The moral compass...the light that is supposed to point us in the right direction and keep us there so that we don't stray off the path, has disappeared, or at least, to many of us. has taken a sabbatical. What happened? Where did it go?  Better yet, did we ever have one and what about right and wrong? The difference between right and wrong is no longer a clear choice.  The lines have been blurred. In todays marketplace of ideas, politics, finance, business, etc., it's no longer making a right or wrong choice. That is a dualistic mindset that no longer applies to many. The right choice has been replaced by the lesser of two evils. We now look at choosing the one that hurts the less. Right and wrong is a matter of pereception.  Morality is never a matter of perception. It exists on it's own. To do what is moral rises above right and wrong; it is never up for debate. Our moral compass didn't fail us...we failed it.

Question... what if others could hear our thoughts? What would it mean  to our family; our work or career; our friendships, people that we meet for the first time, etc.? What would they hear? Would it be devastating or encouraging news to them? Hopefully they would hear the good that we see in others...the compliments, the happiness,  the love, the kindness, the encouragement, etc. Unbfortunately, they would also hear the cruel, mean, back-stabbing, wish they were hurt or dead, jealous, envy, judgemental, thoughts as well. We know this is true, because we've all done it. It satisfies us at times to see people fall. It's our wicked, shadow self at work. Negative energy is stronger than positive energy because we give it  more freedom to remind us that life is unfair and we didn't get to grab the brass ring. Negativity teaches us that the quickest way to success is for others to fail. This is because we never come to grips with failure. So, how can we make a course correcti...