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Being Useful

Thomas Jefferson wrote of an inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness. Jordan Peterson, the newly-famous Canadian psychologist, writes about the importance of taking responsibility -- and that doing something positive and worthwhile is what we should strive for. Emanuel Swedenborg wrote about being useful -- and how that effort leads to spiritual progress.
Christ and the Rich Young Man

What does it mean to be moral? To lead a moral life is to be a good citizen, and to act in an honest fashion. But it makes a difference if there's spiritual good underlying it, or not.

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Learning to make bread.

New Christian thought emphasizes processes - the process of shunning evil, the process of learning truths, the process of making yourself develop good habits. One key process - and mindset - is that of being useful.

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Nebuchadnezzar Dreamed of a Great Tree - an illumination from Beatus of Liebana’s Commentary on the Apocalypse, Spain, 926 AD.

Are people fundamentally good? Or fundamentally evil? Or a mixture? Are we spiritual beings? Or just "random collocations of molecules"? How do we work?

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