Values Flashcards
Real Depth
It is possible to wordlessly understand and to align with what really matters. It is possible to find harmony with human thriving, human suffering, and their causes. Depth of wisdom is a profound, ordinary, living process.
Ever-Refining Attunent
If we know how to truly listen, we can always be learning from life.
Responsive Creativity
Every moment of life is call-and-response. Expressive creativity is always in dialogue with this very moment. Keep responding anew and see what comes.
Joyous Play
Put a sparkle in your eye—whenever you can. like a husky in the snow, or a humpback falling away from the sun; Make spontaneous joy; Make altruistic mischief: Play is the mark of true safety and thriving.
Trust & Tend the Process
We can endeavor wholeheartedly, free from grasping for outcomes.
Leadership
To stand before a collective and ask “How can I help?”. To support the clarifying of intentions. And to help guide the currents of motivation and action to flow through those intentions—for the benefit of all.
Reverence & Awe
This world is so vast. We could float on our back with the oceans below and the stars above, and what is inside would be just as vast as what is outside.
Steadiness
Self-possessed at center, having courageous integrity to one’s own stillness, courageous integrity to one’s own motion, one with great personal inertia is as steady in their dedicated passion, as their easy repose.
Being Loving
Human beings can be a warmth hearth for one another. Kindness, patience, and gentleness are as important as food and water. May love be abundant.
Nature in Nature
In the presence of mountains & oceans, forests, deserts, & streams; being in Nature, as Nature, knowing Nature.
We Are with You
To face our private trials, we can train together. And when each individual succeeds or falls short, by fellowship the outcome belongs to us all.