Human beings are social creatures. We like to be part of the elite, to know things others don’t, to be perceived as better, stronger, smarter, wealthier, and more beautiful. Unfortunately, this can translate into our spiritual lives as well.
During lockdown, we’ve seen kindness proliferating. But when this is over, it’s far more likely that we’ll simply revert to our old ways and experience little, if any, lasting change. The danger is not that we'll go back to all the old nastiness of our former lives. It's that it will get worse.
What we do now affects our future.
Whole books and movies, TV shows, plays, poems, and philosophy classes have been dedicated to those seven little words.
Most of us recognize them as true, at least from an intellectual standpoint, but are we living them right now?
