Do you live your life by your principles?

Or do you ideally put your head in the sand and ignore that inner voice?

I have of late been listening to the latter, and I'm already I feel liberated.

• I am in the process of selling and giving away pretty much everything I own that I don't strictly need.
  
• I am going to stop eating all battery produced food.
  
• I am trying to always think positively about myself, and of those who I meet. My first thought when someone is rude is to wonder what has happened in their life/day that is bad that has caused them to act like that. etc etc
  
• In short, I am trying to stop thinking about myself. Not what can this do for me, but what good can this bring about? To care less about the self brings so much joy.
  
  
  

In time, when I can, I am going to do a job not for the money but because it is a thing I believe in. This I believe is the highest expression of commitment.

Has anyone else attempted to live their live vertically? In the now, deep within themselves and their principles, as opposed to thinking about the horizontal, and what else is out there? I am startin to learn that the verticial is a abyss of unimagainble joy.