The Deceptively Simple Sentence Helping Me Radiate Good Karma Daily
How I’m being altruistic — without sacrificing my time, priorities, energy, or money
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8 min readFeb 23, 2024
“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them.”
Recently, one such simple sentence revealed its extraordinary glory.
A sentence we’ve all heard in some shape or form. A saying easy to dismiss as a feel-good cliche. A string of simple, innocent words.
But so deep are its implications that it’s now my life’s guiding light. It goes…
“Leave Every Thing, Person, and Place Better than You Found Them.”
Let’s dissect it part by part to understand its hidden nuances:
- “Leave Every” — alludes to Buddha’s Law Of Impermanence Aniccā. Nude at birth to bones in death, we leave everything — and everything leaves us. But this “gloomy” truth has a positive underbelly — that we’ll explore.
- “Every Thing, Person, and Place (TP&P) Better” — implies unconditional “on-the-fly” altruism. Implicit is a simple strategy (I’ll share) for effective altruism without self-sacrifice.
