No one knows what will happen in the days ahead.
So, I decided to try to reach for the stars and describe the
USA
I’d like to see.
Our nation will become a land based upon empathy with each of us making compassionate,
life-affirming choices at every opportunity each day.
We will adopt a New
Bottom Line, which Rabbi Michael Lerner defined this way:
“A New Bottom Line is
one that judges the success of our social institutions, government, and
corporations based not on the Old Bottom Line of whether they maximize money
and power, but instead assessing them on the extent that they maximize love and
caring, kindness and generosity, empathy and compassion, social and economic
justice, peace and nonviolence, and environmental sustainability, as well as
encourage us to transcend a narrow utilitarian approach to nature and other
human beings.”
As for the choices, Stephan A. Schwartz, in his
groundbreaking book, 8 Laws of Change, explains, that first we must be aware
that we make choices each day. For instance, when we go the grocery store, we
choose to buy one product over several others. If we become aware of the nature
of the company that produced the product we are buying, we can make a conscious choice to
buy the product produced by a compassionate, life-affirming company. That, he
makes clear, is a world-transforming choice which is ours to make each and
every time we make a decision to buy.
Perhaps making those compassionate, life-affirming choices
will help us get to that New Bottom Line.
8 Laws of Change | Stephan A Schwartz | TEDxVail
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