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in which in fact... I think it's when Jesus is on the cross or is about to be crucified and where he says: "My Father, forgive them, they know not what they do." Well, it's this idea in fact, it's this idea of ​​saying that they are so immoral that it's not their fault and that we must have compassion for them. So, when we understand that, on all these aspects linked to morality, well it pushes us to be more demanding with ourselves and more tolerant with others.

It's a little bit... you know, it's very close to what we were saying last week when we were talking about learning and I was telling you that the more we know, the more we realize that there are things we don't know, so the less we know. Well, here, it's the same thing. The more moral we are, the more we realize that there are things we do that are immoral, and so the more we see that we have to progress. It's a little bit the same idea, ultimately.

And all this is counter-intuitive, huh, I hear it well, and it can also lead to discouragement. That's why you have to be aware of it, that's why I'm telling you this today. It's not to discourage you, on the contrary, it's to warn you.

And Seneca, the very famous Stoic philosopher, said or he said in one of his writings: "There is no man more unhappy than he who has never been crossed by the idea of ​​his imperfection." So, I can repeat that: "There is no man more unhappy than he who has never been crossed by the idea of ​​his imperfection." So, you must not lose confidence israel whatsapp number data even if you realize that you are not as moral as you would like to be. The fact of realizing it is already a first victory in fact.

And as a sign of encouragement, I can quote you something that I read in CS Lewis, who was a British writer and theologian, whose book Mere Christianity I really liked, and he says that in fact good and evil, so, both, right and wrong, increase with compound interest, because a very small good action can have enormous consequences in a few months.

For example, I don't know, if you decide to walk 5 minutes today and you say to yourself: "Hey, I'm going to do it every day", when you usually never walk, you're totally sedentary, or if you decide for example to read a page of a book when you've never read, well all that can have a huge impact on your future. So, a very small positive action can have a huge result, 'end of bringing you a huge result. This is what we call the kaizen spirit, an accumulation of small daily improvements that add up and which, in a while, bring a huge improvement. So, this is what I recommend for learning French and it's what also works in all areas related to development.

But the opposite actually works too. A tiny bad action today can have huge negative consequences in the future. For example, smoking a cigarette today is not too serious in itself, it's not going to kill you. On the other hand, it can create an addiction or it can be the starting point of an addiction that you will have all your life, and then, it becomes something very very bad.

So this idea of ​​CS Lewis is really to see the good moral acts that you do, well see them as being significant, and the same thing for the immoral acts, see them as being significant, and try to multiply the ones and reduce the others, quite simply.

So, see the path, because we were talking about morality and perfection. We will not reach perfection. So, we already know that. That is why it is important not to get discouraged and to see the path as a reward, not to focus on the destination but on the path. So, it is a very Buddhist approach, but there are many examples that can help us understand that.

For example, if you have to go up, you have to climb a mountain, well you're not there the whole time saying to yourself: "Oh my, come on, I'm at the top, I can't wait to be at the top to see the view". No, you can already say to yourself all along the way: "Wow, it's really beautiful over there, look. I can see more and more" and you can enjoy it all along the way.

In the same way, if you take a boat trip, well you can say to yourself: "Ah, I can't wait to get there to my destination", but you can also say to yourself, and this is what I recommend you do: "Well actually, it's nice to take this little trip, to be on the water in my boat", and therefore, focus as much as possible on the journey, the journey and not on the destination, because if you focus on the destination, in this case here that you will never reach, which is moral perfection, well you will be disappointed. So, focus instead on becoming better on a daily basis, on the journey, and everything will be fine. Keep in mind that it is a marathon and not a sprint. So, there is no point in trying to hurry.

Before I conclude, I would like to share with you something that I read in Benjamin Franklin, a very famous American inventor, politician, etc. 'well, he did a lot of things. And apparently, he had set up a system where he had chosen 13 virtues that he wanted to develop and he tracked his failures on a calendar by focusing on one virtue per week. So, that is to say he said: "Well, this week, it's going to be, I don't know, discipline", and so, he focused on this virtue throughout the week, and he had a calendar on which he tracked that.