wherefore art thou golden rule

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you – The Golden Rule. There seems to be a deterioration of the Golden Rule in today’s society.    History   The Golden Rule appears in varying forms in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Isocrates, and Seneca.   The Golden Rule is a precept of the…

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Learning to act when prompted. As part of a college course I was taking years ago, we had a professor guide our class into a hollow of underground caves just outside of town. An intermittent series of personal flashlights led our way; the cones of light bouncing off the cold, echoing walls. At one point,…

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My mother had a condition that put her in a wheelchair the last few years of her life. The issue was her feet, but it was bad enough that she had been in a wheelchair for some time. In fact, I’m not sure that my children recall her ever not being in a wheelchair. One…

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