Acceptance is rooted in the understanding that you and We are different and the same. Every 1 is unique, yet being, just the same.
Acceptance opens your heart, and when open hearts connect, trust in life is emboldened. And optimal connections occur when there is trust.
Only with trust can you maintain an open heart.
Foster trust through humility and virtue.
Humility allows you to have strengths without degrading others,
and weaknesses without degrading yourself.
When you show acceptance with a humble heart,
it cultivates dignity in yourself and in the other,
and a flow of dignity is the first bond of trust.
Trust is then fortified by virtue; the greater the virtue,
the greater the trust. When you learn to perceive the divine spark
in each 1, your heart opens and then your mind opens
and reverence moves in.
Reverence for the spirit is what generates a halo,
because reverence for the light begets virtue.
Virtue readily opens the heart and the flow of virtue
shared between Us is trust illuminated.
Trust in Ourselves as the Creator
will drive Our spiritual flow in the next level.
“Jefferson called it ‘public virtue’ – the sense of responsibility to improve the human condition and to be intolerant of corruption. And according to Jefferson, without the requisite degree of public virtue in a population, democracy could not be sustained. But Jefferson also recognized how a democratic society could foster public virtue and imbue a sense of personal responsibility in its citizens, thus ensuring its own perpetuation.”
“Public Virtue cannot exist without private, and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics....There must be a positive Passion for the public good, the public Interest, Honor, Power, and Glory, established in the Minds of the People, or there can be no Republican Government, nor any real Liberty. And this public Passion must be Superior to all private Passions. Men must be ready, they must pride themselves, and be happy to sacrifice their private Pleasures, Passions, and Interests, nay their private Friendships and dearest connections, when they Stand in Competition with the Rights of society.” – John Adams
“And most importantly, the appeal of modernist consciousness was made vivid through its transcendent vision of a new form of human government; and we can expect that the rise of integral consciousness will likewise depend on a similarly transcendent vision of a new form of human government, one that transcends and includes the idea of democratic nation states.”
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Rahe, Paul A. Machiavelli's Liberal Republican Legacy, pg. 23. Cambridge: UK. 2005.
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