A righteous act is the natural result of a clear mind. When the mind is clear the act follows naturally.
An act is the natural - and inevitable - result of a thought, believed. When my mind is clear, my thoughts flow in total alignment with what is (which is always what should be) and so my acts naturally serve what should be.
So demanding righteous acts is a fool's errand. It puts the cart before the horse and plugs the spring from which all truly righteous acts flow: oneness with what is.
A demand for righteous acts follows from a painful belief in separation, that righteousness is something outside me to achieve, rather than something within me to notice. In that confusion, the important thing is an act that is not naturally taking place, and so I move against what I am and what is. This is where suffering begins. I start to believe that a failure to act is a spiritual failure, that one who fails to act is wrong. This is a painful story (and so cannot be true). And any act that comes from painful thinking will always produce painful results. In spite of any and all good intentions.
So I don’t pressure myself or others to perform righteous acts, I simply attend to the clearing up of my own mind. Because when I am clear, righteous acts just drop forth effortlessly - and work effectively - in the world.