You get appreciation from yourself which is the reward in giving in life, love, family, philanthropy, social crusades or whatever; the joy is in the giving. We are programmed to receive- (Eagles) which causes all the conflict when what we expect or demand from others is not received.
Character is a system of values personally chosen by and for the individual in growth. For me it's resiliency, adaptation, curiosity, personal discipline, determination, fortitude and listening too. Philosophical reasoning and the quest has to be a unity of subjective and objective knowledge.
I don't believe authority figures can impose character on someone else, not God, clergy, teachers, politicians, police, courts, parents or employers. It has to come from within, again chosen. Choice. Otherwise why mince words like freedom and liberty when power and law asserts itself for power's and law's sake? The purpose and translation gets lost in the assertions, enforcements whatever.
There can be guidelines, rules and laws for the general good, but the motive and goal remains for the general good-NOT for the ones doing the guiding and ruling!
Mesa Verde (or______________) always tells the truth. The land opens us up to the agelessness of the Earth and our age within it. This world has no boundaries except those we humans construct to shut each other out elsewhere. Here on the land the only thing we can attempt to shut out is our own Truth-and it wont let you do that. Where I go, what I seek and see is who I am.
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