On the benefits of doing something about it....

I received an email with a great quote from one of L. Ron Hubbard's lectures given in December 1956 (the same month I was working on getting a new body. :-) )

It speaks to the virtue of not turning away but instead turning towards and handling things that are there to be addressed.

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"Now, each one of us has a certain amount of responsibility in this sphere, this universe, whatever size it is. And the number of times we didn't go into communication are the number of times we're out of communication. So we can always say, "The wrong thing to do is nothing.

"'There's a big atomic bomb. What can I do about the atomic bomb! I'm just me, I'm not anything.'

"Why are you just you? How'd you get to be just you?

"'Well, everybody is broke and there's five states blowing away out there, and there's drought sweeping through the Middle West, and we have an oversupply of food.' I don't know how we mesh these things together. 'And there isn't enough money to buy products, and the distribution is that, and so forth.' And you say, 'Well, I'm just me. I can't do anything.'

"How'd you get to be just you that can't do anything about it? By not doing anything about it. Don't you see?

"Someday, sooner or later, anybody has to turn on the devils that pursue him. Someday. You can turn with processing (Dianetic or Scientology counseling) but you can also turn with living. By what? By doing something about it.

"Now, there are not wrong things to do and right things to do to the degree of error that there is 'nothing to do about it.' Can you see that?"

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A pretty simple, powerful argument against standing idly by.

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