a practical philosophy for improving ones quality of life by cultivating greater awareness, understanding and more effective application of our entire self and all its parts
four primary components of life:
human attributes (lines and levels)have been, are and can become:
coming to understand the development of human characteristics such as spiritual, mental, physical, willpower, financial, relationships and over 50 others |
forms of practice (injunctions)
have done, are doing and can do:
training can be done to improve ones attributes through practices such as meditation, study, gymnastics, affirmations, budgeting and role-playing |
the way of effective action
how we've done, are doing and can do:
increase ease and effectiveness by improving motivation, energy and will, experiencing flow states, working with intention, consequence and intensity |
key concepts (maps of reality)
what seems to be:
practical philosophy; to see how it all fits together and makes sense through different perspectives such as integral theory. |
"With time and patience,
the mulberry leaf becomes satin.
With time and patience,
the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown."
- Chinese proverb
"The essence of my work is; God, or the absolute Spirit, exists-and can be proven-and there is a ladder that reaches to that summit, a ladder that you can be shown how to climb, a ladder that leads from time to eternity, and from death to immortality. And all philosophy and psychology swings into a remarkable synthesis around that ladder."
-Ken Wilber, The Great Chain of Being, 1987 (unpublished manuscript) |
"The lotus of the eternal knowledge and the eternal perfection is a bud closed and folded up within us, It opens swiftly or gradually, petal by petal, through successive realisations, once the mind of man begins to turn toward the Eternal, once his heart, no longer compressed and confined by attachment to finite appearances, becomes enamoured, in whatever degrees, of the Infinite. All life, all thought, all energizing of the faculties, all experiences passive or active, become thenceforward so many shocks which disintegrate the teguments of the soul and remove the obstacles to the inevitable efflorescence. He who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite. He has received the divine touch without which there is no awakening, no opening of the spirit; but once it is received, attainment is sure, whether conquered swiftly in the course of one human life or pursued patiently through many stadia of the cycle of existence in the manifested universe."
- Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga
"I AM" by Joshua Belisle - 06/27/13
I am
and everything is
both a whole and a part
infinitely complex but simple
in the vast space of nothing
dances energy and form
from life to spirit
I am
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Last Update on:
March 24th. 2015
though I am working on a new site now:
Towards the Integral Perfection
March 24th. 2015
though I am working on a new site now:
Towards the Integral Perfection