{"id":132,"date":"2010-12-24T00:16:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-24T00:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/haveamagnificentday\/2010\/12\/what-is-it-that-makes-me-better.html"},"modified":"2010-12-24T00:16:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T00:16:58","slug":"what-is-it-that-makes-me-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2010\/12\/what-is-it-that-makes-me-better.html","title":{"rendered":"What Is It That Makes Me Better?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brief dialogue between the Brazilian theologist Leonardo Boff and the Dalai Lama:<\/p>\n

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What is the best religion?<\/span><\/p>\n

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The best religion is the one that gets you closest to God.
It is the one that makes you a better person.<\/p>\n

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What is it that makes me better?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Whatever makes you more compassionate, more sensible, more detached,
more loving, more humanitarian, more responsible, more ethical.
The religion that will do that for you is the best religion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I am not interested, my friend, about your religion or if you are religious or not. 
<\/span>What really is important to me is your behavior in front of your peers, family, work, community
and in front of the world.  <\/p>\n

<\/font><\/span>Remember, the universe is the echo of our actions and our thoughts.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n


The law of action and reaction is not exclusively for physics.  It is also of human relations. <\/span>?<\/span><\/font>             
<\/span><\/span>If I act with goodness, I will receive goodness. <\/span>?<\/span>If I act with evil, I will get evil.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

What our grandparents told us is the pure truth. You will always have what you desire for others.
Being happy is not a matter of destiny. It is a matter of options.<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

Take care of your thoughts because they become Words.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take care of your Words because they become Actions. <\/span><\/p>\n

Take care of your Actions because they become Habits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take care of your Habits because they will form your Character.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take care of your Character because it will form your Destiny,<\/span><\/p>\n

And your Destiny will be your life.<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is no religion higher than the Truth. <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/span><\/i><\/b> <\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Have a Healthy, Joyous, Peaceful & Abundant Christmas!<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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blessings,
\ud83d\ude42 Lee<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mega Coach<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n

<\/span><\/i> <\/p>\n

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