Lessons from a Walk With the “Old Man”
Carlos Cardoso
Aveline
Not to complain
about life, not to complain about circumstances, and not to complain about
oneself: these are three rules along the way to self-knowledge.
Not to get euphoric about
life, not to get euphoric about circumstances, and not to be euphoric about
oneself; these are other basic rules.
One seventh idea is:
“To adopt clear and noble
goals and to calmly work for them, expecting no short term results and looking
at a wide horizon.”
These seven procedures yield
good results in both short and long term.
They make us look at the
world through the lens of moderation, of open-mindedness, discernment and
objectivity.
One day in my childhood, as
I walked with my father he noticed that I had my eyes focused a couple of
meters ahead of me on the sidewalk. I was looking down, and he said:
“Look further ahead. Look upwards
and into the horizon. Keep the nearest meters of sidewalk within your field of
view, but look in the distance.”
I saw the advice was not
limited to the physical world.
But it took me years to
fully realize that as one has a clear and elevated goal which is not narrow or immediate, we don’t get too shaken by small and short term facts, however
pleasant or unpleasant they may seem to be.
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On the role of the esoteric movement in
the ethical awakening of mankind during the 21st century, see the book “The Fire and Light of Theosophical
Literature”, by Carlos Cardoso Aveline.
Published in
2013 by The Aquarian Theosophist,
the volume has 255 pages and can be obtained through Amazon Books.
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