Where is Principled Living?

The personal factor plays in politics so that principle must frequently yield to the yoke of self-interest.  Even the powerful, like anyone else, allow their desires, however paltry, to defeat the obvious truth of principles.  Like mules they are driven by the stick of their passions despite the hideous magnitude of the impact of such a self-serving force in the halls of government.  Even now, billions of dollars are extracted from the laboring masses to feather the nests of indulgence of the wealthy and influential.  But this is as it has been as far back as history is described, and way before.

So, it is the personal factor that impedes truth, and not that we haven’t figured out principles of justice and fairness, or not that we fail to understand compassion, love, kindness and generosity.  All who were children understand these things, if not by their presence, then by their absence.  It is one’s own individual attachments to certain personal joys, indulgences, little secret privileges that yield some physical, mental or emotional pleasure, that are the cause of the derrailment of the hope and dream of all civilizations.  When these things are allowed to drive the body and mind blindly and with indifference to truth, they cause untold misery.

Self-honesty is the greatest need of this age or any other.

But it is unlikely, and probably by Plan, that this problem will continue.  Because this world is veiled from its own Origins and Cause.  In such a situation, it is ridiculous to expect integrity, honesty, or fairness.  On the other hand, perhaps fairness is perfectly consistent and flawlessly maintained by the Hidden Principles (Hercalitus’s Logos) behind it all.  How can we discern either way, when our own eyes are blinded not only to the greater Truth, but even to our own self-deceptions and our own degree of ignorance and need.

The conclusion here that aches for realization, is that one must see to one’s own self-healing, to improving one’s self-awareness and integration with that Logos, if there is to be any hope at all of living truthfully and honorably.