First of all I write here from the spiritual point of view, which largely runs counter to the good qualities in the material world.
An example, be generous, trusting, faithful, humble, sacrificial, and so on. It is not advantageous in the material world, but in the spiritual. So from now on everything I write below is referring to values and morals that are important for spiritual progress.
Basically you have to improve: kindness, authenticity, emotional stability, flexibility, generosity, gratitude, honesty, humility, order, patience, perseverance, respect, tolerance ... and secondly we must fight to eradicate: competitiveness, selfishness, falsehood, nonconformity, infidelity, prejudice, arrogance, violence.
Both lists can be much longer, are just a reference.
Some of them, there are such important things that you can not think of making an honest spiritual journey if you do not change what is necessary.
To be clear, I will not become confusing for you with many virtues to get and it because it should be discouraging... The spiritual path, is easy to understand, if we look as a path of progressive improvement.
We all have much to improve ... today there are people who have many good, perhaps more than others, but they can not walk at this time in a path of spiritual progress and instead someone with less spiritual conditions have decided to progress toward spiritual enlightenment.
This does not mean you should abandon today, or right now all your wrong habits, or bads, it means that it has begun working to improve yourself, and so is your goal in a period of time that he himself fixed achieve better than it was a while ago.
There is no way a competition over who has more virtues and good qualities, but rather the constant effort we can do every day, not allowing himself to take any steps back.
Sometimes everything seems to show that you can not move forward, but if there is a sincere attitude to fight to improve, undoubtedly achieved.
I have a suggestion ... when the road becomes very hard to improve on a certain goal, sometimes it's good not to stop worrying about it and try to move towards progress in another. I give this example, suppose someone tries to be more kind to people and has reached a point where no further improvement, incorporating the habit of being grateful is a great support to the previous achievement. If that person gets to thank all the good that you learn to acknowledge how good it receives from others and therefore will be easier to be nice.
Otherwise, when you can not advance a goal, try other ... all have much to improve, no?
I repeat here the 5 principles of Reiki, Mikao Usui taught by, for nearly a century.
"Just for today, do not worry"
"Just for today, do not be angry"
"Show respect to your parents, teachers and elders"
"Earn your living honestly"
"Be grateful for everything that is alive"
I suggest that they are incorporated as a personal prayer, not to be recited, but to repeat and incorporate them into daily life.
On the other hand as can be seen on these principles, mentioned good qualities animate yourself to create other principles for yourself.
A big hug for all, Paul Barbe
