Who is your greatest ethical or moral role model?

Who is your greatest ethical or moral role model? Is it someone famous, living today or from the past?

For me, it is the unknown, unnoticed divine individual who gives openly, limitlessly, happily without desire to be seen, thanked, or acknowledged—without ever imagining they should be seen or acknowledged!

They are the ones who live their lives as their religion/doctrine/philosophy but based on their thoughts and actions you would never imagine they spend time on such impractical extravagances. I am in awe of the ones who do not seek out high places or position but by their nature cause others to automatically rise/progress/elevate.

These people manifest the world while driving a taxi, bathing their baby, working in a factory, trading stocks on Wall Street, or any other activity–from the most glorious to the most mundane. –as surely we all do manifest the world while simply living, but not nearly to this degree of impact.

But I am speaking of individuals about whom I cannot discern how they became different, or why they are that way. I do not know if their unlimited ability to give to the world around them is due to what they are, or if the individuals have become what they are because of their unlimited ability to give to the world around them.

You may walk by them without seeing them, but not without feeling their presence–at that moment you will suddenly find yourself feeling better…noticing the best of yourself, the world.

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There are tales of individuals called The Lamed Wufniks (or Muslim Kuth). They are on earth, and always were, thirty-six righteous ones, sometimes said to have the mission to justify the world before God, sometimes to each be 1/36th of God. They do not know each other and may show up in any aspect of life. If one comes to the knowledge that they are a Lamed Wufnik, they immediately die and somebody else, perhaps in another part of the world, takes their place. Lamed Wufniks are, without knowing it, the secret pillars of the universe.

Those I speak of may or may not be one of the Wufniks—and there are not merely 36 of them—but I suspect that such individuals inspired the stories.

Copyright 2008 CG Walters

This is my truth. Only you can determine if there is any value in it for you.

C.G. Walters primarily writes fiction that focuses on the multidimensionality of our loves and our lives. His current novel, Sacred Vow is a metaphysical novel about a man who responds to the mysterious call of [his soulmate], opening the way to redefinition of both himself and his understanding of the world around him…Highly recommended. —Midwest Book Review.

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