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🗓️ 10 February 2025
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Three distinct voices—Leonard Woolf, Gerald Heard, and Thomas Merton—point to the same truth world: The value of right action lies not in the results we achieve for others, but in the rightness of the action itself, and its significance for ourselves.
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1:08.7 | In my research, I'm always interested to see a similar idea expressed in different ways by different people. |
1:10.7 | Here's an example from three different writers. |
1:13.8 | They are all commenting on a notion that I think many people might find counterintuitive. |
1:21.1 | The idea that we should do good works with no regard for the results for others, but only because of the rightness of the action, |
1:30.7 | and because it's the right thing for us to do for ourselves. The first example comes from |
1:38.7 | Leonard Wolfe. Leonard Wolfe was an English political theorist, author, publisher, and civil |
1:43.9 | servant, and civil servant, |
1:44.7 | and husband of author Virginia Woolf. |
1:47.5 | Ever since I read this passage from Leonard Wolfe's memoir, |
1:50.8 | The Journey Not the Arrival Matters, It Has Haunted Me. |
1:55.3 | Here's a lightly edited version of the passage, she wrote. |
1:59.6 | Looking back at the age of 88, over the 57 years of my |
2:03.9 | political work in England, knowing what I aimed at and the results, meditating on the history |
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