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Submitted by jeff23 on October 12, 2007
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You will agree with me, no doubt, that the degree of your cultural development – not to mention your character – can best be judged in terms of your sense of values – both moral and aesthetic – as revealed, not much in your pronouncements, as in your actuations – especially at the critical moments of your life.
Your sense of moral values, in turn, is perhaps nowhere better embodied than in your philosophy of life – namely, your attitude towards God, your attitude towards nature, your attitude towards your fellow beings.
Are you self-centered, for example, as to regard God simply as a guide, ready to show you just what steps to take in any venture; or as a protector, ready to save you from pitfalls and evil; or as a sort of policeman, always watching your every move and ready to pounce on you and punish you as soon as you say or do anything wrong; or as someone with whom you can strike bargains and whom you expect to shower you with blessings in return for your devotions; or as an indulgent father, ready to forgive you for all the wrongs that you have committed as soon as you say that you are sorry?
Do you hold the broader view, rather, that God is no less than the motivating force in all creation and that the whole of creation is so organized as to include both what you consider good and what you can consider evil – in much the same way as a tapestry is so designed as to include both black and white threads as well as threads of various colors? Do you realize that the reason life can sometimes seem so ugly is that, lacking the perspective of space and time, you can encompass only a tiny aspect of it – in much the same way as a bedbug, living in a tiny portion of a tapestry, would, if it were at all conscious of its environment, be able to see only the individual threads in its immediate vicinity, which are likely to be dirty and frayed?
If, like you, the bedbug could see the tapestry in its entirety; and if, also like you, it were...
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