This is what you should do:

Love the earth and sun and animals,

Despise riches;

Give alms to everyone that asks;

Stand up for the stupid and crazy;

Devote your income and labor to others;

Hate tyrants;

Argue not concerning God;

Have patience and indulgence toward the people;

Take your hat off to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men;

… Reexamine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

From Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman, 1855-1892