The one who sows winds reaps storms

March 20, 2022. No. 191

He who seeks the well-being of others, already has his own assurance, said Confucius, but to arrive at that giving spirit, we must get rid of all the selfishness that the upside-down world usually dictates to us on a daily basis. The logical thing would be for each one to use his life to improve everyone's life; unfortunately, many are still in the animal stage (not rational) in which each species (and each member of the species) fights tooth and nail for food and habitat.

Despite the fact that the 21st century has not left behind the law of the jungle, that the use of technology to destroy men (and women) survives, that a global society prevails with the principle of free competition (justification so that the poor are ever more —and poorer), the best possible confrontation is to get out of all this by decimalizing ourselves.

Expelled all hatred, the soul recovers its radical innocence. These verses by Yeats invite us to cleanse the soul of the baseness that weighs it down. At every moment of life, we ​​face the crossroads of a stormy time where multiple paths converge; only one is true, the others will lead to a dead end. However cobbled it may seem to you, the path of virtue is the only one that leads as far as your spirit endures. Banish all feelings of enmity with your fellow-men; no one is worth more than you, much less the one who claims to value himself for what he has. Don't look down, don't settle for the helpless role that leads to regret and self-pity.

I complained that I had no shoes until I met someone who had no feet, Rabindranath Tagore wrote, as if advising us that, from time to time, we look towards the neediest. Kindness is the force capable of facing the most dramatic situation in which you could find yourself, with it even the fiercest hatred is overcome. Blessed are those who know how to give without remembering it and receive without forgetting it. To make of oneself that being who offers himself whole, without expecting rewards, and at the same time grateful to the one who has a friendly gesture, is to be master of oneself; something that cannot be taken away from you even by the direst luck concocted by fate.

As for the one who weaves tortuous secrets behind your back, someone wrote: if they say something wrong about you, correct yourself, otherwise laugh. In the long run, whoever strives for good jumps all obstacles. Do not worry about the one who trips with his entanglements, as a Spanish proverb says: whoever sows winds reaps storms.

He who seeks prosperity by doing evil to others, no matter how much he achieves his purpose, there is no one who can free him from the oxidation that these actions are producing in his soul. There is no life that can bear carrying the monster that it is weaving of itself. That is why it is healthy to apply the Arab proverb: Punish those who are envious by doing them good. When you go through existence with inner peace, luck is your friend, and no matter how thick the fog is, you know where you are going.

The envious person does not support the talent of others, the wise man will always want to be with someone who is better than him.

See you tomorrow guys.