THE GOODWILL CULTURE
Preface
For the conscious transformation to prevail, structure and direction must prevail. Its structure consists of its fourfold root: a human-transcendent wisdom. a critical-creative thinking education, a public benefit society, and a Love spiritua;ity. Its direction consists of the integral implementation of this fourfold root. These two essentials --
structure and direction -- need to be housed, so to speak, need to be cultured, in accordance with the whole movement and growth of this conscious transformation.
Accordingly,. this fourfold root has a life, a philosophy, an environment, of its own. This is its culture; its unique identity.
And because, this culture exists for the well-being, the good, of everyone concerned, its main modus operandi is goodwill. Accordingly, the name of this culture is the goodwill culture. It's simple and self-explanatory. Whatever goes contrary to this goodwill is excluded from its culture.
Notes on Goodwill
The following notes on goodwill, give an impression of its moral-love grounding.
1 Goodwill is love particularized, is love in moral action.
2 Goodwill: A kindly feeling: well-wishing, benevolence, friendliness; a will acting freely from pure disinterested motives; an open, charitable attitude, without reservation or bitterness; a willingness to be fair-minded or impartial; good intention; virtuous inclination or disposition; cheerful consent; heartiness;readiness.
3 Goodwill is the man of action's religion.
4 Goodwill is to be applied not only to others but to oneself as well -- especially toward oneself!
5 A person of goodwill is always ready for a smile -- she can't help herself. He brightens the day just as does the sun; but she has one advantage over the sun: she even brightens a sunless day.
6 Goodwill is love anthropomorphized.
7 She of goodwill surely gets angry, but never in spite or resentment, or rancor. Good-willed anger is anger justified and gauged rightly.
8 Goodwill can't but help being on the verge of joyful tears of love and sympathy toward everyone worthy of it.
9 Goodwill is just that: willed goodness -- goodness strong and directed; goodness wrapped in refined judgment and subtle sensitivity.
10 The man-woman of goodwill suffers, grieves, yes; but his goodwill toward himself will not permit him to despond in his pain.
11 Goodwill is not in the least concerned with being right all the time; what is being right in comparison to freedom from psychic tension? Goodwill fears not in the least being silly, childlike, sentimental, demonstrative; for these responses recapture the spontaneous, simple innocence of the child that stays within us all through our lives, however stifled.
12 "Oh happy! happy!" cries out goodwill: "Be happy! Be happy! It is your inheritance. Put away pettiness, enlarge yourself."
13 Not a giggling, bubbling, saccharine goodwill, but a goodwill of effervescence, wit, and grace.
14 Consideration is the scepter of goodwill's rule.
15 How can you lust in animal-ego for that whom you love or have goodwill toward?
16 Goodwill inspires love...or is it love that inspires goodwill...or is it both ways?
17 Love does not always touch; but goodwill does; it is here and now and immediate.
18 Goodwill is the true incentive for self-refinement.
19 Goodwill is patient above all else.
20 "Put on your fool's cap and bells," teaches our prophet, Nietzsche, "Go to wreck!" he declaims. Who cares about money! about security! about possessions! Give me goodwill, and all else will fall into place "for rich or for poor, in health and in sickness, in life or in death."
21 Sing! Dance! Kick up your heels! Have the time of your life! -- for your goodwill frees you unto this innocence.
22 What's that! You take me for a fool? A naive simpleton of love? You in your taut austerity? If only you knew with what wisdom I make my way in my foolishness. Do you not see that I have the absurdity of life by its tail -- that I have overcome it! I have overcome myself!
23 Free yourself! Smile inside as well as outside in goodwill toward all -- yes, even your enemy -- him especially. And not in order to "pour hot coals on his head, " but in order to make him smile too.
24 Goodwill gives you the courage to be yourself. No trembling; you say what is to be said firmly and decidedly without anger or animosity.
25 Goodwill activates torpor.
26 Goodwill is the pied piper of humanity. Who, what, can resist its draw?
27 We need not love, in the affectionate sense of the word, those to whom we exercise goodwill.
28 Goodwill relaxes you.
29 Goodwill is gauged by sympathy; for as one sympathizes with another, he cannot but feel as that person feels and so feel the strongest goodwill. To sympathize with one's misfortune is easy; to sympathize with his good fortune harder; to sympathize with one's good is easy too; to sympathize with his evil is much harder; to sympathize with one's politeness is easy, not his rudeness.
30 Let your goodwill fan your anger toward another however justifiable; after all, we all do wrong, are fallible and frail at times; and no one can ever come up to what we expect of them; why we ourselves can't even come near our own ideal image. It's hard, I know; but it must be done.
31 Goodwill is not only acting well toward others, but also feeling the same for them.
32 To hold on to your goodwill can be excruciatingly difficult when the injustice inconsideration etc. of another gets to the blood of you. Then the genuineness of your goodwill is put to the test.
33 Goodwill adds a grace to one's person; in which case, lust upsets this grace, as it is essentially an agitating arousal, mostly blind to anything but its thrust. I need not draw a conclusion here.
34 The practice of goodwill is moral, aesthetic and spiritual all at the same time.
35 The practice of goodwill requires grace, sensitivity, control; lust of all kinds loses these
-- for the time being.
36 Notice how a dull, somber expression can beam alive with a pleasant show of concern,
affability, and courtesy -- a gentle smile.
37 Your goodwill can mostly bear with the ill-will or negativism of others, since it is goodwill that is important to one.
38 Calm strength and grace with good will; patience too.
39 You certainly don't always have to be smiling, cheerful -- you can't be; but you can always be courteous, friendly; and yet even these are not always easy to be.
40 The essence of love (goodwill): "I don't want to unfairly, or selfishly, hurt anyone's feelings."
41 Goodwill is a sunny word, cheerful and nimble; and yet awesome as the mighty redwoods. We have not here a sentimentality.
42 Let your goodwill be your strength, your guide, your friend, and your moral beloved.
43 We are to have goodwill even toward life; and that is why it neither desponds nor defeats us.
43 Do you think the goodwill you harbor toward others does not apply to your loved ones at home.
44 I may not always be pleasant; but I will not be rude.
45 Goodwill is love put in practice. It is grace in action.
