(SPIRITUAL ETHICS)[9th April 1987]

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People with an interest in Inner or Spiritual Development are often criticised for appearing to take no interest in anyone else's welfare but their own: which seems to be the extreme of selfishness, particularly in those who commonly lay stress on reducing the importance of the self. Such Individuals often seem to have no sense of the community, or their obligations towards it, or the benefits they receive from it, at all.

As with so many matters of judgement, it depends where you are looking from: on your viewpoint, or point of view, or angle, if you like. Individuals interested in Spiritual Development are genuinely intensely interested in the Spiritual welfare of other Individuals who are, or show signs of, being similarly interested in it. They are likely to learn fairly early on, however, that members of the wider Community generally do not welcome any kind of reference to Spiritual affairs, regarding such reference as distasteful, and an interference. Most of us*, therefore, do not offer conversation on Spiritual affairs unless invited to do so.

Communities of Individuals interested in Spiritual development exist, of course, but are generally regarded with suspicion by the wider Community – not least because of their corrupt imitators.

*[But see next entry, 3rd para, /*...*/, first five words, to first comma.]

**{or, their own tendency towards corruption.}

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