“Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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The purpose of life is to live as rightly as a person finds possible in thinking and acting rightly. One way to do this is to live the best truth we see possible. We are to live as though we do not know when we will pass on, be it death or transition to heaven. In doing so, we should aim to live in harmony of thought, word, and deed while seeking to purify our thoughts and deeds. Living in such a way will bear its best fruit(s) in its own time. For this to happen best, we must live in truth and integrity with our innermost being.

In living such a life, it is essential to know that our spiritual supplication, worship, and prayer are not mere acts of superstition but as real as our eating, drinking, exercise, and all else we do. In this daily admission of our need for God’s loving support, we do not waste time worrying, shame, or losing faith, which hurts our empathy toward others. This requires us to live honestly, and we must do so to live our best lives. Living this indomitable will gives us the strength to live lives of forgiveness and nobility.

Only by living our lives filled with humility and integrity will we have the compassion required to live our best lives. History teaches us that those with falseness and vain aspirations may have moments of apparent victory only to ultimately lose. Evil will always fail. Goodness and godliness will always prevail. We must be the change we wish to see. Mirroring the world is the path of failure and harm to ourselves.

Love breaks all barriers and is the strongest force in this world. Never seek to take; seek to give. The power gained from this is effective and permanent. True beauty is the purity of heart that Gandhi sought to encourage from each of us. Wouldn’t this be a better world if we lived by these admonishments?