Consequences of Doing Good

The best way for you to live the “good life” is to accept responsibility for your actions. You can’t live according to “the rules”. There are no rules. What you choose to do, is it. All of it. Good or Bad. You made the free will choice, live with it.

Be responsible for what you have done. If you must answer to society for your actions, so be it. You are a part of society. You have obligations to society.

Prayer, charity work, or donations, a “good” life, and good works are not necessary. Good works probably don’t hurt anyone. You do have to be careful about unintended consequences.

Likewise, charity probably won’t hurt anyone. You do have to be careful about unintended consequences. Do you feed a man a fish, or teach him to fish? Or both? One without the other has unintended consequences.

You can consider joining a local service organization in your community. There, by active participation you will have chances to experience personal bliss. With personal involvement you will have over a period of time, many fine opportunities to experience personal ecstasy. You will be following the golden rule.

One person, unless extraordinarily lucky, most likely cannot provide large sums of money for any number of charitable needs. By working together with others you can make a difference in the lives of others you will most likely will never meet.

I worked for years to help raise funds for an eye clinic devoted to eye research and facilitating eye cornea transplants. In all that time I never once was able to make an emotional connection with the people I had been helping indirectly.

Then one day my family went to the circus in Seattle. Certainly we were enjoying the show. What made that circus special and an extraordinarily memorable event for me was to see a young girl. She was about twelve years of age and sitting in the row in front of us. She was visibly and loudly enjoy the circus. She was just vibrating with joy, with life. I’d noticed that she had a patch, a dressing over one eye.

During a break, I leaned forward and spoke to her parents. She had just received her second cornea. Her first operation was completely healed, and this was her first experience to see anything like the circus, the performers, the acrobats, the clowns, and the animals. She’d gotten both corneas from the clinic I’d worked to support.

Needless to say, the next time it came around to go out and try to raise money for the clinic, I had an easier time in working for that purpose. I was now easily doing things I actually didn’t normally like to do. Now I had an emotional connection to a “good” result. That kind of experience simply makes a person feel good for a very long time. Even now, over twenty years after that circus, I remember, and still feel the warmth, the glow, the satisfaction I felt then.

(c) Copyright 2006: George Wallace recently published a book on religion which lashes out at nearly all of the comfortable ideas about God, the trappings of organized religion, and the priesthood. His pithy comments and suggestions for a return to a God-centered personal religion will interest everyone. This article may be freely reprinted so long as all copyright attributions, and the full content of this resource box are included. www.OhGodIsThatYou.com

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