Universal and Moral Values, Politics and World Peace — Page 24
And then, the entire economic planning will have to be changed!. This lowering of standards is not a punishment - it is a pleasure! What I am saying might be amazing, yet it is true. If you lower your standards for a good and just cause, you gain a sense of nobility you feel a sense of nobility born within you which is a reward in itself! And no better reward than that can be imagined!. CON. The sacrifice of prophets. Why prophets are sacrificial throughout their lives? Why do they waste the only life span that is offered them here on earth. by pursuing goodness at the cost of their own comfort and pleasure? Are they mad? Certainly not! Their future proves that they were the wisest people of their age. . What happened to Jesus Christ? All his life, he sacrificed every second every moment —of his pleasure for the sake of mankind, and suffered at the hand of those whom he wanted to reform. He was not mad — nor was he without ego ego-but his ego was of a higher nature, of a far more refined quality than the ego. of a common man. When he suffered for the sake of goodness, he really could enjoy it, because the sense of nobility born with it was ample reward for his acts of goodness and sacrifice. . This is not only true in the case of Jesus Christ, it is true in the case of every prophet of God. Their 'madness' can be analyzed only in these terms. that they see higher values than those who are 'low-based' (who see pleasures in material gains, but do not know how to enjoy pleasures in sacrificing material gains for the sake of others). Every time such a heart-warming bargain is made, the person who gives, receives more pleasure than the person who receives. This is the basic lesson of human psy24 UNIVERSAL MORAL VALUES, POLITICS & WORLD PEACE