The nature of compassion is connected with other persons. We cannot be compassionate towards ourselves. We cannot be compassionate apart from others. Compassion is a personal, subjective experience that arises within our minds and emotions when we see or hear of another person’s suffering. Compassion is our personal suffering, in some measure or form within […]
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Universality of the Golden Rule The moral principle, treat others as you want them to treat you, is a universal idea. If you look at world religious and philosophical literature, you will see structurally similar teachings of the Golden Rule. This graphic was produced by a Roman Catholic Canadian organization, Scarboro Missions, which has a […]
We all have self-control to some degree. There are all kinds of ways you show you have self-control every day. Make the list yourself. For all kinds of reasons–personal, legal, employment, family, social, religious–you restrain your speech and behaviors. You have self-control already in some ways. Nevertheless, we often show we do not have self-control […]
Our word, integrity, is an almost exact transliteration of the Latin word, integritas, which means “undiminished condition, completeness, soundness, blamelessness.” Many people today do not connect the word “integrity” with “leadership” today because of wide gaps between the two in many leaders in business and government. Accepting Personal Responsibility–a Fundamental for Leaders President Harry Truman […]
Fraud is generally defined in the law as an intentional misrepresentation of material existing fact made by one person to another with knowledge of its falsity and for the purpose of inducing the other person to act, and upon which the other person relies with resulting injury or damage. Fraud may also be made by […]