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- It is important to courageously and honestly ponder about the leaders we follow, the ideas we subscribe to, the religious ideas we take as truth and our reasons for doing so. Revisiting your choices helps to keep them honest.
 

- It is important to remember that we are all one people, no matter how different our ideas are. And that both, pain and love are the same, no matter what the geographic location of those suffering. Compassion, understanding and helping others should have no imaginary boundaries. Borders are just that, imaginary.
 

- It is important to look inside for answers instead of blindly following ideas presented to you. 
 

- It is important to understand that NO ONE has all the answers, and that those who tell you they have a direct link to absolute power just think they do it better than you do. We are all part of the same whole, and as such, all have access to the same answers. We are also all human, and liable to the same faults and weaknesses. It takes strong, centered people not to be corrupted by power.
 

- It is important to listen and try to understand those you disagree with. You only learn why you believe what you believe in when you accept the possibility that you might be wrong.
 

- It is important to use judgement when part of a group and to have the courage to challenge decisions you don't believe are good ones.
 

- It is important to understand consequences, and to look ahead when trying to prevent a problem. Cycles of destruction don't change when all parts continue to behave the same way they had been behaving before. 
 

- It is important to evaluate whether we have grown as a group and as individuals, and whether we have learned something from our experiences. Stale ideas, much like stale water, are a breeding ground for diseased thoughts.
 

- It is important not to forget the most honorable and loving things that happen shortly after a disaster, and what we were most proud of then. They are usually the real truth, before the ego takes over and we start racionalizing other reactions.
 

- It is important to help those around us heal, and to try to heal ourselves. It takes more courage to choose to live a good life than to give up on the fight. Those we sacrifice our lives for would only be given a gift if they knew we chose to do better, be better and work harder in their honor.
 

- It is important not to forget. We tend to repeat mistakes when we forget their consequences. 
 

- It is important to move on with a sense of purpose, do good, live a good and fair life, help those around you, help those who have no help around them, practice understanding, or at least... try...