Right Thing, Right Now
WHEN GOOD MEN DO NOTHING “Often injustice lies in what you aren’t doing, not only in what you are doing.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.5 History abounds with evidence that humanity is capable of doing evil, not only actively but passively. In some of our most shameful moments—from slavery to the Holocaust to segregation to the murder of Kitty G
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It’s better to be a good person and fulfill your obligations than to have renown and power.
Sharon Lebell • The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
WHAT IS ACTION? Action is commonplace, right action is not. As a discipline, it’s not any kind of action that will do, but directed action. Everything must be done in the service of the whole. Step by step, action by action, we’ll dismantle the obstacles in front of us.