If you think about being authentic or your ‘true self’, do you think of who you aspire to be or who you are in this moment. Far too often we assume our ideal self and then see ourselves as flawed in some way. From this viewpoint, it is easy to feel we need to be […]
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This is a question that has been asked through the ages and many great minds have come up with ideas about how to be a good person and live a good life. Aristotle (384bc-322bc) developed the idea of ‘Virtue Ethics’ with a focus on developing our virtues. He developed the idea of the ‘mean’, also
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Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francesco Varela identified that living organisms, including we humans, have both conservative and expansive tendencies. Our conservative tendency is to continue what is already so for us. We put a great deal of energy into doing this. We feed ourselves and exercise, clean our house, take care of our garden,
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When asked about life’s meaning it is easy to start to think about the BIG questions – the meaning of existence, the nature of a good life and our individual and communal purpose. It is also easy to fall into the trap of believing there must be a big answer to those big questions. One
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