Just A Thought ~ A FIRMER FOUNDATION

If we do good thinking that we will thereby escape or avoid sickness and misfortune in the future, we are laying ourselves open to disappointment. What we call 'misfortune' is part of life and cannot, with all certainty, be avoided. Not only this, but our disappointment at having failed to deflect misfortune may cause us to stop doing good, thinking that it's no use anyway. This would be a great loss. We should try to do things simply because we know they are the right things to do, and not for what we might get as a result. Such actions would be complete at the time and leave no residue.