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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
      • Week 07: Engaging the World
      • Week 08: Order
    • 2 Sowing
      • Week 09: Preferences (Desire)
      • Week 10: Autonomy
      • Week 11: Life as a Journey
      • Week 12: Renewal
      • Week 13: Hope and Optimism
      • Week 14: Self-esteem (Self-worth begins)
      • Week 15: Self-confidence
      • Week 16: Independence (Self-competence)
    • 3 Growth
      • Week 17: Our Future
      • Week 18: Honesty
      • Week 19: Obligation in the World
      • Week 20: Duty toward Others
      • Week 21: Awakening
      • Week 22: Obstacles and Opportunities
      • Week 23: Individuality and Community
    • 4 Ripening
      • Week 24: Honoring
      • Week 25: Excellence
      • Week 26: An Ethic of Generous Service
      • Week 27: Openness
      • Week 28: Transcendence
      • Week 29: Wisdom
      • Week 30: Caring
      • Week 31: Courage
      • Week 32: Citizenship
    • 5 Interlude
      • Week 33: Grounding and Well-Roundedness
      • Week 34: Assertiveness
      • Week 35: Restoration
    • 6 Fulfillment
      • Week 36: Creativity
      • Week 37: Truth
      • Week 38: Love
      • Week 39: Faith
      • 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
    • 8 Harvest and Celebration
      • Week 47: Flourishing
      • Week 48: Focus and Perspective
      • Week 49: Change
      • Week 50: Finding Our Niche
      • Week 51: Accepting / Surrendering
      • Week 52: Living Religiously
      • Week 53: Celebration and Remembrance
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1 Dormancy

Wish Fulfillment

Wish Fulfillment

Believing things to be true because one wishes them to be true is a prime malady of the human condition. It is an opposite of objectivity, reflecting a shortfall of intellectual honesty. It has led to ... Read More about Wish Fulfillment

Intolerance

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Bias

[/caption] Magritte’s painting suggests a central question: can we recognize our own biases? ... Read More about Bias

Arrogance

Arrogance

Humility's opposite, arrogance is an unjustified and inflated (immoderate) sense of self, sometimes expressed as grandiosity. ... Read More about Arrogance

Culture and Civilization

Culture and Civilization

Civilization is a manifestation of order. "Why should I be good to others? Why should I care about anyone else?" Skeptics of a Humanist values system pose these questions regularly. As with the ... Read More about Culture and Civilization

Living in Discipline, Self-Control and Self-Regulation

Living in Discipline, Self-Control and Self-Regulation

Through discipline, we put and keep ourselves in good order. Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability. [Christian writer Roy L. Smith] Your disciplines today will govern ... Read More about Living in Discipline, Self-Control and Self-Regulation

Being Stable and Constant

Being Stable and Constant

Healthy stability, which is not excessive or rigid, is an important part of good order. I have constructed this model with an emphasis on change and progress but in our everyday affairs, people also ... Read More about Being Stable and Constant

Developing Good Habits and Practices

Developing Good Habits and Practices

Good habits and practices are important to living in good order. Doing good things haphazardly or inconsistently does not generate good order. The brain processes everything we experience and all we ... Read More about Developing Good Habits and Practices

Concentrating

Concentrating

  Salvador Dali, The Lacemaker (after Vermeer) (1954-55)       Concentrating is an aspect of order in domain of thinking. Unlocking bits of the unseen order - penetrating into ... Read More about Concentrating

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