Comments on: Attitude https://conradaskland.com/blog/attitude/ Music Director and Music Technology Fri, 19 May 2006 10:18:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Anonymous https://conradaskland.com/blog/attitude/#comment-29 Fri, 19 May 2006 10:18:26 +0000 http://www.conradaskland.com/blog/?p=88#comment-29 Where do we find the inner strength to keep our attitudes positive and respond to life’s difficulties with virtue?

Surely, we all see that Christians, Muslims, Hindus…all fail at times, all fall short. Do they possess an inner power that I do not? I cannot see the evidence for it.

I live a virtuous life, and yet the one temptation that faces me, which I have heretofore only skirted around, is a temptation that I do not know that I have the inner strength to resist forever; if I do not resist this temptation, I will have to live with a secret, deceive, and if I fail to keep the lies, lose my family. It is the pain of virtue versus selfish desire. It is a timeless, transcendent phenomenon, across all cultures and religions. It is a temptation that all religious men, and all non-religious men, have or will face during marriage. And for now, I am stronger than it is.

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