“They pray during the weekends and sin during the week,” my best friend used to say when we were teenagers, describing some of the adults in our community. Since then I have been interested in the “ethical gap” – the distance between our moral ideals and actual behavior. Lessening that gap and embodying our most cherished values is crucial to the art of flourishing.
The feedback of close friends, self-reflection, meditation, psychotherapy, studying our dreams, reading inspirational spiritual and religious texts, and participating in communities of moral accountability are some of the ways we can do this.
What has helped you lessen your own ethical gaps?
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