CHARACTER IS DESTINY

Heraclitus Wringing His Hands Over a Globe of the World

Heraclitus, a philosopher of Ancient Greece, said that character is destiny.

Was ever a truer word spoken? What you are "made of," and what you can summon up in terms of courage, integrity and grit, will determine in which direction you head in life and what your destination will be.

And at the end of your life, I gotta think that's going to mean something. Much more than how many cars you have or how hard you partied (not that fun shouldn't be a part of life too).

Right now, as the planet teeters on the edge of environmental collapse and is besieged by various other preventable poisons, right now is the time for character. Not the flag-waving, follow-the-bogus-leader kind. The kind that is inside us all and gives us our true power, both as individuals and as members of the human family.

Put another way, we really are the sum of our actions.

Now is the time for action not ignorance. Now is the time to "dig deep." Now is the time to find our true character.

There is no other way out of this for us and our children. The writing is splashed across the wall in massive red letters.

So be an activist every day of your life: in how you think, what you do, how you spend your money and where you shop, how fervently you seek truth and pass it on, in how benevolent you are toward the needy, in how loud you shout at the Establishment to stop destroying the world for their own profit, and on and on.

We can do it. Millions are already doing it. And the payoff will be pretty damn glorious.

Character is destiny. Even if it simply turns out to be the final destiny of your conscience.

Are you in?

Take care,
Adrian

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