We need Integral Well-Being. We all suffer, we have bitterness in life and we want to change.
In any case, I think that Integral Well-Being is the result of self-respect. This would seem quite strange to an economist, to a theosophist, etc.
What could self-respect have to do with economic matters, with problems related with labor or with the labor force, with capital, etc.?
I want to comment the following: Our level of Being attracts our own life… We used to live in a very beautiful house in Mexico City. Behind that house there was a very large lot of land which was empty. One ordinary day, a group of “parachutists” as we call them, invaded that land. Soon they built their cardboard huts and established themselves there.
Unquestionably, they became something dirty in that Colony. I do not want to underestimate them, but if their cardboard huts were really clean, I would not object to anything about them. Unfortunately, a frightening lack of hygiene existed among those people.
I observed the life of those persons very carefully from the roof of the house: they insulted each other, hurt each other, they did not respect their fellowmen; in synthesis, their life was horrifying, with miseries and abominations.
If police patrol cars were not seen there before, now the police were always visiting the Colony. If that Colony was peaceful before, afterwards it became an inferno. In this manner I was able to evince that the level of Being attracts our own life, that is obvious.
Let us suppose that one of those inhabitants resolved from one day to the next to respect himself and to respect others, obviously, he would change.
What is understood by respecting oneself? To abandon delinquency, to not steal, to not fornicate, to not commit adultery, to not envy the well-being of one’s fellowman, to be humble and simple, abandon laziness and become an active, clean, decent person, etc.
Upon respecting himself, a citizen changes his level of Being and upon changing his level of Being, he unquestionably attracts new circumstances for he relates with more decent persons, with different people, and possibly, that type of relations provokes an economic and social change in his existence. In this manner, what I am saying would be fulfilled, that integral self-respect provokes social and economic well being. But if one does not know how to respect oneself, he will also not respect his fellowmen and will condemn himself to a wretched and unhappy life.
The beginning of Integral Well-Being is in self-respect.
Samael Aun weor
