Harry Amon’s version of The Golden Rule
Wise words from a twitter friend, www.harryamon.com.
Harry Amon wrote:
I try to treat others as I would like to be treated – and I would always like to be treated well. I try to be and compassionate; I try to be courteous and friendly; I try to helpful. In the Human Jungle of violence, corruption and greed, however, I fail every day trying. The honest one all too often gets a raw deal… People are treated as a means to an end… Kindness is regarded as weakness… I myself have only so much time, only so much money, only so much energy so; I select my goals, I set priorities, I am sometimes a little violent, a little corrupt, a little greedy but as
Imperfect as I am, I try to live by this rule of which there are many versions:
“Do for one who may do for you, that you may cause him thus to do.”
(Ancient Egyptian, The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant 109 – 110)
“Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.”
(Thales of Miletus)
“Whatever is disagreeable to yourself do not do unto others.”
(Zoroaster, Shayast-na-Shayast 13.29)
“One should treat all beings as one would like to be treated.”
(Jainism, Vardhamana Mahavira, Sutrakritanga 1.10.13)
“Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.”
(Buddha, Udana-Varga 5.18)
“Do not do to others what you would not have them do unto you.”
(The Conversations of Confucius 15.23)
“Lay not on any soul a load, which ye would not wish to be laid upon you…”
(British Humanist Association, 1999)
“… don’t do things you wouldn’t want to have done to you.”
(Bahá’i, Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh 66:8)
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