Living according to one's own convictions and respecting one's own limitations and strengths.

Consonance with natural/universal truth. Self-consistency and consistency with Natural world.

Everyone wants to know the truth, until they find out what it is. Also, the truth is what remains after we lose our beliefs. I am committed to finding truth and integrating it into my ever changing world view. Truth is much more interesting thatn anything that could be imagined. I, like everyone else, can not always bear uncomfortable truth. I realize my limitations as a mortal being with limited capacities, yet I am in awe of the truth and contend that knowing the truth and being committed to it underpins our ability to have integrity.

I aspire to the reflection of love which is charity but my human limitation makes me only work toward approximations. Deus caritas est - "The Ultimate is love". Love, in this sense of charity, is an unlimited loving-kindness towards others, both honors and reflects the nature of Reality. First i ask the sacred question, "What is good?" The love that is caritas resides in the will and in emotions, regardless of what emotions it stirs up. Charity is comprised two parts, love of Reality and love of man, which includes both love of other beings and of one's self. "In a word, there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love." says a famous sage who wrote for the "Bible."