I just think if people are not considerate, try to understand, empathy, sympathy. More loving, caring, or simply more polite, and basic respect. Then the society will have better emotional wellness.
What do you think???
please feel free to answer my other questions.
To answer this I will tell you a story. Perhaps if you tell this story enough times someone will learn it.
In the age of miracles, an ancient holy man died and was swept down into Hell. There he saw people sitting at a sumptious feast table. They were presented with all the food they could ever have wanted. There was one problem, of course being Hell: permanently tied to each arm of each person was a spoon with a three foot long handle. Every person tried to eat, but the food in the spoons could not reach into their mouths. They were in misery, starving. They groaned in agony and despair.
The man was then quickly whisked into Heaven. It was the age of miracles, you see. There he saw the same scene. The same sort of table, the same setting. Spoons permanently affixed to peoples' arms. There was only one difference: in Heaven, everyone was feeding their neighbor.
This is not a story my people tell, nor a story we tell in my Lodge. It is just a story I tell you now to help with the increase in the emotional wellness of our society. I bet you already knew it. Go tell it a few times. Make it yours. Make the world better. I dare you.
Peace.
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If everyone in the world could simutaneously think about love or about their own personal God for ten seconds, the power of the collective thoughts would resonate and transform the world.
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You have this posted under mental health, not under philosophy or sociology so I'm going to answer it as a mental health issue.
The NMHA affiliate where I lived my early years really dealt well with this- by offering classes, and support groups for everything related to mental wellness. I ran an MHA for awhile and my goal was to work like the one where I was from- but we never quite made it while I was there. But I do think that's where the NMHA has it over NAMI- in that they deal with all aspects of mental health and not just brain disease. you might want to see if there's an affiliate in your area and get involved. You can find the affiliates by getting on the website for NMHA.org.
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To answer this I will tell you a story. Perhaps if you tell this story enough times someone will learn it.
In the age of miracles, an ancient holy man died and was swept down into Hell. There he saw people sitting at a sumptious feast table. They were presented with all the food they could ever have wanted. There was one problem, of course being Hell: permanently tied to each arm of each person was a spoon with a three foot long handle. Every person tried to eat, but the food in the spoons could not reach into their mouths. They were in misery, starving. They groaned in agony and despair.
The man was then quickly whisked into Heaven. It was the age of miracles, you see. There he saw the same scene. The same sort of table, the same setting. Spoons permanently affixed to peoples' arms. There was only one difference: in Heaven, everyone was feeding their neighbor.
This is not a story my people tell, nor a story we tell in my Lodge. It is just a story I tell you now to help with the increase in the emotional wellness of our society. I bet you already knew it. Go tell it a few times. Make it yours. Make the world better. I dare you.
Peace.
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