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▼ NoME Part Four: Chapter 10: Session 870, August 1, 1979 1/32 (3%) impulses ideal urge civilizations headache
– The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events
– © 2012 Laurel Davies-Butts
– Part Four: The Practicing Idealist
– Chapter 10: The Good, the Better, and the Best. Value Fulfillment Versus Competition
– Session 870, August 1, 1979 9:21 P.M. Wednesday

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Such action serves as a safeguard so that you do not overemphasize the gaps that may exist in yourself or in society, between the reality and the ideal condition. Many people want to change the world for the better, but that ideal seems so awe-inspiring that they think they can make no headway unless they perform some great acts of daring or heroism, or envision themselves in some political or religious place of power, or promote an uprising or rebellion. The ideal seems so remote and unreachable that, again, sometimes any means, however reprehensible, eventually can seem justified (see Session 850, for example). To change the world for the better, you must begin by changing your own life. There is no other way.

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