Non-negotiable sacred ground can provide stability, meaning, and moral direction. It can also hide harmful assumptions and biases. These conclusions often escape criticism. The challenge is determining when sacred ground defends harmful thinking.
Leveraging Your Habitual Nature to Build Good Habits
By leveraging your habitual nature, you can turn bad habits into healthy ones. That’s right. When you understand how thought patterns drive behavior, you can use this mechanism to build good habits.
How Balance And Proportion Support A Healthy Mindset
Poor judgment and faulty reasoning are often tied to a lack of balance and proportion rather than intelligence. To support a healthy mindset, it is important to understand how they work and learn how to maintain them.
The Threefold Path from Awareness to Action
The threefold path from awareness to action appears in several traditions. The words change, but a similar pattern keeps returning. Understanding these paths helps us learn from them and see how insight can become part of the way we live.
Are Freedom and Autonomy Possible When Extremists Rule?
When extremists rule, they change more than the culture and the laws. It leads many to ask, are freedom and autonomy possible under this type of government? It is a question worth exploring because it affects everyone today.
Living the Virtues of the Spirit
Living the virtues of the spirit means more than admiring love, gratitude, or peace. These are the nine noble qualities of awareness. They become real when they shape our mindset. Each virtue is already within us, but each grows through attention and practice.
The Cultural Values Test — Are Your Beliefs Really Your Own?
The cultural values test answers the question: Are your beliefs really your own? Understanding our assumptions and judgments is essential to maintaining a healthy mindset.
The Core Process for Repairing Harmful Thinking, Beliefs and Values
Modern culture is full of messages designed to shape how you think and what you do. Some are useful. The core process for repairing harmful thinking, beliefs, and values helps you find those patterns, test them, and replace them.
Turn Positive Values Into Action
Our world can feel heavy. Problems seem too large. Hope can feel thin. But our values become real when we act on them. As you turn positive values into action, you also begin to change yourself, your homes, your communities, and the world around you.
Aligning Beliefs With Objective Truth or Subjective Truth
Most people think their choices come from careful reasoning. Yet much of the time, our minds are guided by feelings, habits, and social pressure. Are you really aligning beliefs with objective truth or subjective truth?