No one can save himself. Your implanted ego will always try to trick you into controlling the outcome of everything. Consider, therefore, that when things go wrong, it might have been the result of doing the right things for the wrong reasons.
How is it that in keeping the peace and trying to make someone happy you succeeded only in duplicating the tyranny of you own miserable childhood?
Experience should have already demonstrated that all your people-pleasing love falls short of the desired mark.
How much more suffering will it take to get you to understand all the implications of doing the right things for the wrong reason?
If we understand this we may be able to avoid the coming apocalypse !
What say you all ?
2007-08-22 21:28:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I couldn't agree more. Everything we do is inspired by our needs and desires. Satisfying basic needs is fine because it is part of living. But desires have ill sources, and we do all the right things for our desires which are the wrong reasons.
2007-08-22 22:27:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am afraid you have it backwards. The usual cause of problems is if we do the wrong things for the right reasons. Eg. many so-called "humanitarian" projects try to achieve good things, but end up doing evil. An example here is trying to relieve hunger in the "third world" which ends up strengthening tyrants and creating massive misery among the "helped" people. Look up all the food aid given to North Korea and Sudan, which ends up feeding the secret police and slave masters and only increases the misery of the local people.
Doing the "right thing for the wrong reason" is for example a milionaire who builds a lake for his own pleasure, but as a side effect creates an irrigation system which benefits starving local farmers. Helping the farmers was not the intent of the action, but the end effect is beneficial to the whole community
2007-08-23 04:49:07 · answer #2 · answered by cp_scipiom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you talking about doing "right" things as defined by yourself? Or do you mean doing what someone else has told you is the right thing? The only right thing to do is to do your best. The only right reason would be to make yourself a better person or the world a better place.
In other words.... Do your best to make the world a better place....
Whatever happens after that is out of your hands.
PEACE
2007-08-23 05:08:17 · answer #3 · answered by 1staricy2nite 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Happiness that is sought from selfish motives, outside of the path of duty, is ill-balanced, fitful, and transitory; it passes away, and the soul is filled with loneliness and sorrow; but there is joy and satisfaction in the service of others.
In a garden there was woman mourning and grieving. She was not walking in the pathway following the guide, but was walking among the briers and thorns. "Oh," she mourned, "is it not a pity that this beautiful garden is spoiled with thorns?" Then the guide said, "Let the thorns alone, for they will only wound you. Gather the roses, the lilies, and the pinks."
It is not wise to to talk over iniquities and disappointments and mourn over them until you are overwhelmed with discouragement, shutting out the light from your soul and casting a shadow upon the pathway of others.
2007-08-23 05:32:22 · answer #4 · answered by Tiffany 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's better to do the right thing for the wrong reasons than do the wrong thing for wrong reasons.
I've actually done the wrong thing for the right reasons, on more than one occasion.
2007-08-23 04:34:39 · answer #5 · answered by Mel W 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
live life as it comes, there is no right or wrong way to live it by others minds, its all yours.
2007-08-23 04:35:58 · answer #6 · answered by Erich J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you can only try your hardest to do the right thing..........
2007-08-23 04:32:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋