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  • Cycle-of-Life Season
    • 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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Week 09: Preferences (Desire)

Fulfillment

Fulfillment

Fulfillment, sometimes called eudaimonic happiness, or subjective well-being is primarily an emotion, secondarily a thought, and it reaches into the domain of action. It is distinguished from ... Read More about Fulfillment

Happiness

Happiness

Hedonic happiness is an emotion, experienced as pleasure and enjoyment, which may be fleeting. Functional MRI studies have mapped the neural correlates hedonic and eudaimonic happiness. Generosity ... Read More about Happiness

Longevity

Longevity

Longevity encompasses all our preferences in the dimension of time. Often people say that they would not care to live to an unusually old age; yet generally when people reach an advanced age, they ... Read More about Longevity

Pleasure

Pleasure

". . . pleasure is the starting point and goal of living blessedly. For we recognized this as our first innate good." [Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus.] "It is impossible to live a pleasant life ... Read More about Pleasure

Satisfaction

Satisfaction

When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor. [Euripides] God comes to the hungry in the form of food. [Mahandas Gandhi] May the roof over your head always ... Read More about Satisfaction

Health

Health

Health is what allows living organisms to function and enjoy life. itis not amenable to analysis along the domains of Being. Not-unpleasant sensations may accompany it but it is not a sensation. It is ... Read More about Health

Preferences – Desire

Pan came out of the woods one day,– / His skin and his hair and his eyes were gray, / The gray of the moss of walls were they,– / And stood in the sun and looked his fill / At wooded valley and wooded ... Read More about Preferences – Desire

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