Mesilat Yesharim – The Path of the Just #18 – Chapter 3 – The Divisions of Watchfulness

Fork in the Road
Fork in the Road

With a firm understanding of our obligation in the world and our first step in achieving our goal – Watchfulness – we broaden our knowledge of the attribute of Watchfulness. We begin Chapter 3. We must now understand how it is divided up so that we can actively put it into practice!

Watchfulness consists of two main areas:

1. Distinguishing between good and bad. Being aware of what is good and what is bad.

2. Distinguishing within good what is considered to be real good, and what is considered the bad of that good.

By fine-tuning our knowledge of the differences between good and bad, and thereafter between the good within the good and the bad within the bad, we are able to begin the process of working on ourselves so that we can progress to a life filled a focus of good in everything we do.

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