Virtues: Personal virtues are characteristics valued as promoting collective and individual greatness.
The following is excerpted from A Book of Love in the Time of COVID-19, Morning Star’s Seven Steps to Spiritual Awakening, A Mindful Guide to Love, Life, and Unity During and After the Pandemic.
We have all struggled at various times in our life. But now, we may be facing our greatest struggle in a lifetime—the “Great Struggle.” We must keep love in our hearts, be in the present moment and the present day. Please do not let fear thrust you into the future. Stay in the present. Have discipline and perseverance until we come out the other side of this scourge… wear a mask and social distance. Yes, it is a struggle, but all of us can do it together.
During this pandemic, we do miss our closeness and interactions with friends and other human beings. It is tough, it is a struggle. Keep in mind that “other” also means residents of nature and nature itself. Go outside and be one with nature. Being out in nature and being aware are essential to our sanity, growth, power, and love. We need to sit and smell the ground beneath us. We must stand and gaze at the tree in its totality and then see the shape of the leaves, the texture of the bark, and the bend of the limbs. We must crawl as a child on our Mother Earth while feeling, hearing, and seeing with our hearts the crawling ones invisible and meaningless to most ego-warped people, but meaningful, visible and consequential to us. We must listen for the passage of the serpent and the buzzing of the bees. The more we use our senses, the more we will stay in the present, the easier it will be to get through this pandemic; it is up to you. The choice is yours.
We must keep love in our hearts, be in the present moment and the present day. Please do not let fear thrust you into the future. Stay in the present. Have discipline and perseverance until we come out the other side of this scourge.
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And one last thing; wear a mask and as Samuel L. Jackson says on YouTube: “Stay the F**k at Home.”