Creativity is an engine of life, which supplies power to drive forward. Anybody can play weird, that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace. ... Read More about Being Creative
Sunday
Restoring the Self
Our mental and emotional well-being demands that we take time occasionally to restore ourselves: to calm down, to reflect and to rest. Personal restoration is strongly linked to recovery. Means of ... Read More about Restoring the Self
Being Assertive
Often distinguished from aggressiveness, assertiveness is standing up for yourself without being abusive or overbearing. Most of the values in our model are assertive, for the simple reason that ... Read More about Being Assertive
Displaying Citizenship
No man is an island entire of itself; every manis a piece of the continent, a part of the main;if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europeis the less, as well as if a promontory were, aswell as a ... Read More about Displaying Citizenship
Displaying Courage
Courage is an action taken at risk to the self. It is the active component of dignity. All of the elements of dignity – wisdom, caring and courage - are ego-transcendent, and lead to spiritual ... Read More about Displaying Courage
Agape
Agape is love for all people. When we care about other people for their sake instead of our own, we transcend the primal bonds of ego. Imagine a world in which everyone loved everyone. Such a ... Read More about Agape
Being Wise
Wisdom is a complex human trait, characterized by a marriage of the intellect with the emotions, and put into action. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; ... Read More about Being Wise
Transcending Previous Limitations
We do not enter a supernatural world when we transcend a previous limitation; it merely feels that way, because we have not experienced it before. Within ourselves, there are voices that provide us ... Read More about Transcending Previous Limitations
Being Open
Konstantin Somov, Open Door on a Garden (1934) For many, spirituality may already have begun to emerge, or may have emerged long ago. For others, an additional distinction may not yet have emerged ... Read More about Being Open