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Title: The Road To Hell is paved with Good Intentions
Post by: Tyehimba on November 23, 2003, 03:15:29 AM
Sometimes i start of with all this plans and intentions to do certain things, and sometimes in the midst of everything, it doesn't get done or goes not according to plan. And i realized that good intentions are not enough, as there must be a continual process of aligning our intent with purpose and action.

And i think that similar things happen with most people, they are not able to see past their own ignorance or insecurity and end damaging themselves and others because they are out of sync with their higher selves. This is why continual development and constant character refinement is important, because it allows us to make maximum use of our mistakes and use them as stepping stones to reach higher truths.


Title: Re: The Road To Hell is paved with Good Intentions
Post by: Ras Mandingo on November 23, 2003, 03:34:44 AM
This is very thruth Tyehimba!!!

There's a saying in portuguese that states that "of good intentions hell is full".

We may have al god intentions of doing something but if don't have the proper information we can't do it.

That's why I love the people who don't think they know everything, When one thinks that knows everything this one closes himself to learning new things and to reflect over them.

The best way I agree is as you described, be able to constantly correct and adapt the own life route and atitudes.

The only way we can develop is by constantly correction our routes (destinies) by learning better and more effective ways of doing old things.

If we can learn to find pleasure in the correction of our own processes, that's the greatest satisfaction of all. Life is a constantly correction of direction. By the mistakes we get to the corrected and most apropriate way. So, mistakes are important and natural in the learning process. What is not important is to keep doing the same mistake when we already know it's a mistake, then one can't evolute.

All the respect.

Mandingo.


Title: Re: The Road To Hell is paved with Good Intentions
Post by: Tracey on November 23, 2003, 09:31:00 AM
Our Best Intentions can only be fullfilled when action is "applied"..otherwise all plans of doing simply join the great heap of non-doing dung piles.

"aligning our intent with purpose and action."..is indeed critical to developing and achieving our highest goals.

Yes..constant character refinement is like the giant shovel applied to removing the mess within our own dung piles. It clears the path to realizing our highest truths. There's only one catch though...ya got to look at it before you cast it off to the side...kind of like a 'self diagnosis'..check-it for what it is.. and acknowledge where it came from. This then, allows us to rid ourselves of the mired muck that we continually allow ourselves to be stuck in. Its almost like one has to dig down DEEP before one can move UP and finally reach the high within our highest selves.

Let good intentions be the THRUST and not just the PLAN to purposeful actions.
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"Let your Efforts be aimed at the Crown of the Master"

Muata Ashby