Little Happier: It’s Right to Do the Right Thing, Even When It Makes No Difference
Feb 10, 2025•6 min
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Episode description
Three distinct voices—Leonard Woolf, Gerald Heard, and Thomas Merton—point to the same truth world: The value of right action lies not in the results we achieve for others, but in the rightness of the action itself, and its significance for ourselves.
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