Until Then

A little poem about doing the right thing.

Until it becomes clear how expressing anger is harmful

I will take care of my anger

Until it becomes clear how hatred is based on ignorance

I will reject hatred

Until it becomes clear how speaking unkindly is cruel

I will speak from love

Until it becomes clear how complaining makes people unhappy

I will not complain

Until it becomes clear how holding a grievance is poisonous 

I will forgive and forget

Until it becomes clear how violence creates suffering

I will abandon violence in all forms

Until it becomes clear how my ego makes me deluded

I will neither celebrate nor indulge my ego

Until it becomes clear how fear is destructive

I will avoid cultivating fear in myself and others

Until it becomes clear that I already have more than enough

I will give to those less fortunate

Until it becomes clear that we are one

I will focus on similarities rather than differences

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