HEY - YOU GOING TO SHARE THOSE VALUES?

"Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use." ~ Sai Baba

We value what we understand. Understanding takes effort, interest, and intent. To understand we need to care. Caring, compassion, peace are virtues.



Virtue defines and expresses who you are. Your values determine where you want to be and who you want to be with.



That is why shared values are the connective tissue that binds a community together and encourages a state and a feeling of unity. Without shared values, we are just a group of individuals. 



The virtues that you choose to practice and guide you to support you and exemplify your character. No virtue. No values. No understanding. No empathy. No love. No peace. No order. No growth.



We get to decide who we are and what we want to be. Do we just accept the status quo and what is and not try to expand and achieve all that we can be?



A closed mind is a dying mind. A closed heart is a lonely heart. Rigidity negates growth. To learn and become we need to be flexible and learn to be pliable and to listen more.



That person that you disagree on one point you may agree on most points. But, we would not know unless we ask questions, care, and share. Comprise is not surrender or giving in or giving up. It is sharing and building and conjoining to bond and connect so that we can create, co-create and advance, evolve. When we can find and share common ground we grow from the caterpillar to the butterfly.

  "People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values." ~ Grace Lee Boggs

JEFF TURNBULL