Beautifully penned Sammo! This one hits hard, look forward to seeing what comes next!

Wonderful message here <3
Looking for the motive behind selflessness is important for understanding the effect that our actions have on ourselves and the people around us. Acting only because of programming, the conditioning of our environment or the expectations of society does not help anyone. I am still working on freedom from certain shackles of my mind and learning to think in the micro and the macro which seems like a good philosophy. Your thoughts always make me think outside my current views and the lesson is a blessing.

As always, your beautiful mind shines through. You're a deep person and your thoughts I will always value. Cheers, my friend! Great work as usual.

Absolute freedom and absolute selflessness are unattainable goals in this universe.

Intention is the difference between selfishness and selflessness and is always measured on a gradient from one person to the next.

I choose not to be measured by others' yardsticks.

Nice post please guys follow me :(

Thank you! Your words. Your words. Reading this makes me want to reexamine my own intentions for my Random Acts of Kindness. It happens to be one of my favorite things in the whole wide world. Does it make me feel better? Hmmm. I like to make others feel the joy, so I guess t would be fair to say that it makes me feel good – to feel a part of their happy.

However, I have no intention of giving that up because it is so much a part of who I am. Kindness counts. 

I gave you my pitiful upvote, but know that it should feel bigger because their was a lot of feeling in it.  :)

Resteemed

my head goes boom! @sammosk are these simple words?  then limit yourself to these, please! :)

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Beautifully written!  I'm thinking of a few acts of selflessness on my part throughout my life.  They seemed to come from the pain I felt from seeing the person or animal is such a horrible situation.  Maybe it wasn't actually selflessness, but subconsciously just a desire to alleviate that pain that I felt.
Interesting to contemplate.

I have been researching this topic too, and find it very interesting. It is done studies showing we might not have free will. Which means that our decisions are determined before we decide conciously. 

Some even go to the lenghts to say that these studies put sticks in the wheels for religions w/ free will. But I don't think it's that simple. And we don't know for sure if this govern all our behavior, or just some parts like; if you want milk in your tea or not.

source: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/mind-guest-blog/what-neuroscience-says-about-free-will/

This brings me to a thought I often ponder. 

If there is some form of an afterlife, and your conciousness exists beyond your bodies expiration, will you still be the same "you"?

Think about it. 

Your awareness is incredibly influenced by your physical chemistry. Your brain functions, your heart, your limbic system, all influence the way you act, the way you behave, the way you feel, and even the way you think. 

So the question is, how would you fundamentally change if you were separated from those physical influencers? Because you most certainly would, don't you think?

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So true, Thank's @gmuxx for sharing this hidden gem.  Altruism is so overlooked and time is the most genuine gift you can give..Great post!