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This is Our Story

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    • 1 Dormancy
      • Week 01: Human Worth
      • Week 02: Universality
      • Week 03: Justice
      • Week 04: Suffering
      • Week 05: Humility
      • Week 06: Avoiding Harm, or Evil
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      • Week 08: Order
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      • Week 09: Preferences (Desire)
      • Week 10: Autonomy
      • Week 11: Life as a Journey
      • Week 12: Renewal
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      • Week 17: Our Future
      • Week 18: Honesty
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      • Week 24: Honoring
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      • Week 32: Citizenship
    • 5 Interlude
      • Week 33: Grounding and Well-Roundedness
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      • Week 35: Restoration
    • 6 Fulfillment
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      • Week 37: Truth
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      • Week 40: Rebirth
    • 7 Assessing
      • Week 41: Home and the Past
      • Week 42: Vitality
      • Week 43: Self-actualization and Integrity
      • Week 44: Connectedness
      • Week 45: Empowerment
      • Week 46: Equality
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      • Week 47: Flourishing
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Week 43: Self-actualization and Integrity

Living with Integrity and Character, in the Wholeness of Being

Living with Integrity and Character, in the Wholeness of Being

When everything within us is in agreement, we become more whole. This opens a door into spirituality.. Internal integration is the harmonic component of spirituality in relation to the self. When ... Read More about Living with Integrity and Character, in the Wholeness of Being

Unifying

Unifying

Unification is about bring people together in harmony. It is also about bringing the elements of life and self together in harmony. Much of the writing on unification is about unity in business. ... Read More about Unifying

Purifying

Purifying

In human affairs, purity is an ideal. A pure hand needs no glove to cover it! [Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Chapter XII: "The Minister's Vigil" (1851).] Better keep yourself clean and ... Read More about Purifying

Being Authentic

Being Authentic

To  be our best selves, we must be who we are - we must be authentic. What does one person give to another? He gives of himself, the most precious he has. . . . he gives him of that which is alive ... Read More about Being Authentic

Confronting, Being Introspective

Sometimes, we might confront another person, lovingly, for bad behavior. We can also confront ourselves, with introspection and self-love. As of 2010, some cognitive scientists were skeptical ... Read More about Confronting, Being Introspective

Being Mature

Being Mature

People can mature intellectually, emotionally, physically, and in development of their skills, talents and abilities. Maturity and self-actualization are closely related. Both represent a manner of ... Read More about Being Mature

Being Self-actualized

Being Self-actualized

Being self-actualized - being all that we can be and are best suited to be - is a measure of living ethically. It is one way of looking at the supreme aim of living. A musician must make music, an ... Read More about Being Self-actualized

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