To feel at home spiritually, a fundamental requirement is to identify less with the things of this world and more with the spiritual purposes that underlie them. For example, a national infrastructure can go begging since there is no personal ego trip readily affixable to them. Public projects have a larger community purpose of meeting society’s needs. When choices center on “what can it do primarily for me?” rather than “what can it do for us?”–a question founded upon the Golden rule–our actions are covet-based and are sure to reinforce and accentuate feelings of anxiety and estrangement.
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