... My goals in this life are:
To bring understanding, where there is hatred;
To bring healing, where there is injury;
To supply knowledge, where there is doubt;
To bring hope, where there is despair;
To bring a smile, where there is sadness;
To be loving, forgiving, compassionate, and generous;
And above all,
To leave the world a slightly better place than I found it................................................................................
Excellent sentiments. We should be pushing to replace the barbaric 10 commandments in their various incarnations with your two lists. Interestingly enough the liberal self-proclaimed christians more or less try to live by these ideas. Only those relatively few like Dan Barker who actually read the “good book” seem to eventually come to an understanding of how cruel, evil, and contrary to a lot of current criminal law most of the bible actually is.
I also like these sentiments. But I would change the first one slightly. Instead of “To bring understanding, where there is hatred” I would say “to bring love, where there is hatred.” Understanding of hatred does not contribute to its elimination.
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