“The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and
humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to
generosity, and humility leads to leadership.”
Christopher
Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
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What does it take
to touch the world for love, for justice, for peace
A little moderation is nice
Not easy
But nice
Personally, but a bag of chips and front of me
A jar of peanuts
And it’s gone, just gone
Nothing left to share, should someone wander into my space
But I get it… if I don’t use it all up, there is something
left to give
If I don’t have to hug everything to myself, there is an
opportunity to share
If I don’t horde, generosity is a possibility
Courage!?
Do I have it? Do you?
I suppose there are many kinds of courage
The courage to speak
The courage to be silent
Sometimes one has to just “say it”
But sometimes, it takes a lot of courage not to say the
thing that would vindicate oneself
Or build oneself up
Because it is the kind, the right thing to do
Humility
Ah, humility
Not thinking of oneself more highly than one should
But not thinking of oneself less highly either
Overestimating one’s importance is damaging
As it is the need to build one’s ego up
The need to brag, and bluster, threaten, lie, and so much
more
Often while tearing others down
Underestimating is as well, believing that every insult,
every slight is about you.
Low self esteem may be another form of arrogance. Think one should be more important
than one is (yes its complicated)
But this I believe
If we have moderation, courage and humility
We are in a place where we can truly lead
If we are a person of extremes, if we hide behind lies and
Live in a reality of our own making, because we can’t handle
the truth,
If we are arrogant, or self-absorbed in any way?
We can’t lead
At least not consistently
Instead we drive, push, coerce, abuse
We could use a little leadership right now.
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