Masturbating Your Ego

Daily Meditation — 5/2/2022
Financial Wellness and Spirituality Segments of YouDaimonia

You excitedly and publicly share your donations to charity, more interested in buying the likes it garners than the actual causes.

You plaster your media images in gussied up flags and political parties, showing how incredibly open-minded and supportive you are.

You advertise you or your company’s support of causes, flashing big checks with fancy suits and ties.

Why are you masturbating your ego?

Quit parading with flagrant pride every dollar or hour you donate to charities.
There are a great many things you care about deeply, but not all of them need a press release or post or selfie or profile picture border.

Do what you feel is right for the sake of doing it because you think it’s right and quit masturbating your ego for clout!

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These are distillations from my coming book “YouDaimonia: the Ancient Philosophy of Human Flourishing.”