#cause-and-effect

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Inspiration is both the cause and the effect of living a positive life.

Dayna Lovely

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Isaiah and E. M. Forster: examples of prophetic and narrative writing

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When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system? Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.

Liezi, Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living

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Cause and effect

adjective

1. noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.

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Compassion is the gateway to the unconditional.

What roles do we take on in our lives?  What relationships do we create just by participating?  It’s a very real question, because a role can determine how one acts and responds, how one listens or even if one is freshly hearing content at all.  Our eyes have blind spots that are auto-filled “by the brain” and yet we naievely assume our perceptual present mode reality to be completely honest with us.  Really, though, it depends on how pure your perception of the true situation.  

So consider that we’re all in it together, and that everyone has bullshit to wade through and emotional timebombs going off all the time.  Eventually, if we stop planting the seeds for our own demise, and begin to cultivate and keep cultivating antidotes to our disjointed-from-reality-and-therefore-not-all-that-good-feeling states, we can accomplish the peace of the world.  How is this so?  Imagine if all humanity had the ability, willingness and courage to evolve toward the good.  If every human on the planet saw the follies of destruction and overimbibing and saw what was unquenchable to be unquenchable and what was quenchable to be quenchable, then our world would be transformed seemingly overnight.

Yet, it seems as though there is a system of sorts in the way, a system that even if everyone were to see Aldous Huxley’s brilliance and be morally reconfigured in the bat of a lash, the long-rooted established architecture, streets, signs, books, posters, and whatnot would all point toward mans recapitulation into states of woe.  So our battle becomes twofold; we must overcome our emotional depravity with emotional fulfillment -- an honest extrospection that lets the situation be without any sort of identity demands -- and we must help gradually convert our environment (our psychological environment) of books, media, and so forth, to be the kind that helps us sustain the beautifully completed unfolding of the potential of mankind, one community at a time.

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“LINDA, HUNNY, LISTEN!”

Children in early childhood are learning and picking up on to others actions quickly. In addition to their mind expanding, they are becoming fast responders, very opinionated too. It may be difficult to get a point through to your child because of how they are starting to understand where they stand in certain situations. 

Piaget refers to egocentrism as the tendency to “center on oneself” or in other words, to be captive to one’s own point of view with the inability to take another person’s perspective. According to Piaget, the egocentric child assumes that other people see, hear, and feel exactly the same as the child does.

(Lightfoot, Cole, & Cole, 2013, p. 279.)

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