Mind Mastery

Care is the desire to improve or better someone or something. 

Whether that be yourself, someone else or a project. 

Care is your hearts desires made manifest into real world action.

If you don’t care about your health, it will be obvious to everyone.

If you do care about your health, it clearly shows.

The desire of your heart to be healthy is brought into reality through care, which then influences your choices, which changes your outcome to be in alignment with your desire.

Desire and care are inter changeable in their order.

What comes first, your desire to change the world because you care, or do you care about the world so you desire to change it?

 

It doesn’t matter, they are both equally important and required values of healthy humans who want to live in healthy societies.

Those who are unhealthy don’t have a lack of care or desire, only a lack of appropriate care and desires.

 

Someone who watches sports after work everyday does so because they care about sport.

If only they cared about living in a world without war, poverty, disease, torture and suffering, would we be able to live in a world free from those atrocities. 

What you care about directs where you attention flows. 

 

If you care about things which are not positively contributing to your health, mentally, emotionally and physically, then it’s more likely that the things you care about are unhealthy and negative.

Change what you care about, change yourself, change the world.

It really is always ever that simple.

 

Often people say they don’t care about the world, even when they do.

 

It’s not that they don’t care about the fate of the world and their loved ones, it’s that they are too afraid to confront themselves and discover how they have been living as a coward.

 

Shame is a great motivator to stay the same, to slowly wither and die in the cold confines of ignorance, rather than find the courage to face your inner weakness.

That’s why it’s so important to stoke the fires of curiosity, to question, ‘is their bravery somewhere inside of me’?  

“Do I have the potential to face my inner demons and win”?

Once that question has been put into your head, it’s only a matter of time before the seeds of care and desire begin to flourish into an avenging angel with the courage to overcome all your shame, guilt and weakness and to bring forth the true care for the world you have been harbouring all along, locked deep down inside of you, just waiting to be freed.

The Utopian perspective on care is mutual beneficial outcome. 

 

If a business man only cared about himself and profit, he works to make more money, not caring if he was actually doing good for anyone as long as he benefited by making a profit. 

This mindset is incompatible with Utopia. 

If that same business man had a Utopian mindset, he would provide a valuable product or service that genuinely improved the lives of others, while he also benefited in some way.

If you care about the health of your family, you will do what you can to help them improve their diet and exercise.

If you have a general sense of care towards people, you will pull over and assist someone who has been in a car crash.

If you care about your intimate relationships, you will learn and grow to make your relationships stronger and more fulfilling. 

If you care about your future and fellow man, you will not participate in a system that steals and abuses you and your fellows.

If you care about the environment, you won’t throw rubbish on the ground and litter.

If you care about living a satisfying and happy life, you won’t be lazy and let all your dreams, goals and ambitions slip by.

If you care about yourself, you will show yourself the respect you deserve and work to improve your body, mind and spirit.

 

Without care for yourself, others and the environment, Utopia will only ever be a dream in the hearts of those who have heart.

With care, we can accomplish whatever we put our minds to.

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The attack on “selfishness” is an attack on man’s self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
 
 To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self-esteem, is capable of love—because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed values. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.
 
 It is only on the basis of rational selfishness—on the basis of justice—that men can be fit to live together in a free, peaceful, prosperous, benevolent, rational society.
 
 Parasites, moochers, looters, brutes and thugs can be of no value to a human being—nor can he gain any benefit from living in a society geared to their needs, demands and protection, a society that treats him as a sacrificial animal and penalizes him for his virtues in order to reward them for their vices, which means: a society based on the ethics of altruism. No society can be of value to man’s life if the price is the surrender of his right to his life.
 
 Needless to say, a rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity or dishonesty of others. He knows that such a course is suicidal.
 
 The clash between egoism and altruism lies in their conflicting answers to these questions. Egoism holds that man is an end in himself; altruism holds that man is a means to the ends of others. Egoism holds that, morally, the beneficiary of an action should be the person who acts; altruism holds that, morally, the beneficiary of an action should be someone other than the person who acts.
 
 To be selfish is to be motivated by concern for one’s self-interest. This requires that one consider what constitutes one’s self-interest and how to achieve it—what values and goals to pursue, what principles and policies to adopt. If a man were not concerned with this question, he could not be said objectively to be concerned with or to desire his self-interest; one cannot be concerned with or desire that of which one has no knowledge.
 
 Selfishness entails: (a) a hierarchy of values set by the standard of one’s self-interest, and (b) the refusal to sacrifice a higher value to a lower one or to a nonvalue.
 
 A genuinely selfish man knows that only reason can determine what is, in fact, to his self-interest, that to pursue contradictions or attempt to act in defiance of the facts of reality is self-destructive—and self-destruction is not to his self-interest. “To think, is to man’s self-interest; to suspend his consciousness, is not. To choose his goals in the full context of his knowledge, his values and his life, is to man’s self-interest; to act on the impulse of the moment, without regard for his long-range context, is not. To exist as a productive being, is to man’s self-interest; to attempt to exist as a parasite, is not. To seek the life proper to his nature, is to man’s self-interest; to seek to live as an animal, is not.”
 
 Obviously, in order to act, one has to be moved by some personal motive; one has to “want,” in some sense, to perform the action. The issue of an action’s selfishness or unselfishness depends, not on whether or not one wants to perform it, but on why one wants to perform it. By what standard was the action chosen?

- Ayn Rand