There seems to, when I look inside and really feel how things feel, that there is a moral order that is not strictly related to what we do for others and the world.
For example, all a person’s good deeds get soiled, if he or she is prideful about them, or even uses them to shame others for not being as good as he or she is. But it doesn’t seem to even have to result in actions or speech. Our mere thoughts seem able to soil a good deed.
Why is this so? Can we explain this logically? I don’t think so. It seems as if we, on an intuitive level, can sense what is right and wrong.
I wish to interject, that this post is not about a metaphysical discussion of right and wrong. But I think that it all comes down to how this or that affects our character. Does my thoughts, words and actions help me to get closer to become the person that I know in my heart that I want to be? Because, if we think and feel a bit about it, we know that there is such a person inside ourselves, don’t we?
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