the quality of the steps you take...

I found this interesting:

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Let’s say that you are a business person and after two years of intense stress and strain you finally managed to come out with a product or service that sells well and makes money. Success???!!! In conventional terms yes.
In reality you spend two years polluting your body as well as the earth with negative energy. You made yourself and everyone around you, miserable. And you affected many others you never even met. The opinion of the masses is that success is a future event, and the end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human happiness neither with the end. The outcome, already contaminated by the actions you took to get there, will create further unhappiness.
What the future holds for you depends on the steps you take now.
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from: A New Earth.