Imagine you're walking to work one morning

Imagine you're walking to work one morning. Your route passes a pond, and as you get close to it, you see a small child struggling to stay above the water. The water isn't deep. You can easily wade in and rescue the child, at no real risk to your safety. What do you do? You help, right? Of course you help! It's a child! It would be wrong not to help. That answer that instinctive of course-means other people have a place in your forest. It's not just you.

— from True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values) · Life Worth Living: a Guide to What Mattesr Most by Miroslav Volf, Matthew Croasmun, and Ry

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Imagine you pass a pond and see a small child struggling in shallow water; you wade in, of course you do — and the fact that you don't even have to think about it means other people already have a place in your forest. It was never only about you. Notice how fast that intuition arrives — a moral gut feeling shows up in consciousness almost instantly, strong enough to act on, even when you couldn't put its reasoning into words. — True North (Ethics, Integrity, Truth, Values)

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