@rok-sivante,

Your Post? In a word: Wow.

Salutations. JaiChai here.

And I hope this finds you and yours healthy and loving life, my friend.

There are so many topics from your post that I would love to comment on, but I'm still rubbing the sleep out of my eyes and drinking my first brew right now.

So, I'm gon'na cheat and beef up a comment I posted very late last night.

*Amigo, I know I am preaching to the choir when it comes to you. So, please indulge me.  The following is for the benefit of our fellow Steemians, ok?*

...Linear thinking keeps people unaware that every measure of any lame, man-made scale of so-called discreet, progressive perceptions/grades/ratings - when taken to its logical end point - will eventually make a full circle.

I wonder how many people would feel better about themselves if they knew that everyone always "does that for which they are rewarded"?

Is that selfish?

Before you answer that...

What if I told you that both Mother Theresa and every despot in history (e.g., both Khans, Stalin, Hitler, etc.) got some kind of self-gratification when they did whatever they truly thought was "the right thing to do"?

You see, even benevolence and sadism will make that circle and meet each other.

Confused? Don't be.

Can't decide what to do? Don't sweat it?

Maybe this will help get your ass moving:

*(Here's what I found to be the best, simplest policy to remember - and most importantly, to live by.)*

Adapted from The Teachings of the Dalai Lama -

"Be kind. And if you can't, just don't make things worse!" - JaiChai

In other words, just do what you truly believe is right and don't get neurotic over it - even if there's a chance you may be wrong.

Why?

Because it's too easy to fall prey to "analysis paralysis"; falsely believing that you must (or can) know *everything* beforehand.

This will surely keep you on the sidelines, while you watch others act on their version of your idea; leaving you with a burning urge to engage in an extended session of self-flagellation, no?

Besides, if you thought what you are currently doing is "right", but sadly mistaken, believe me, the whole universe will tell you - in spades!

So relax.

Why don't you look - I mean really look - at the beautiful, "snapshots of duality" that sourrounds us - that are, in reality, perpetual cycles with no beginnnings and no end.

Why don't you journey inward and see how everything will end at the beginning, and so it goes...

Thanks for indulging my rants.

Namaste, my friend.

JaiChai

P.S.

"Perception is everything. While many can see a circle, only a very few can see the spiral." - JaiChai