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Michael at 03:52, 18 March 2026

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	'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]] ([[Inner Alignment]]), and also one's family, community, and society ([[Outer Alignment]]). When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> When we are aligned, we are whole and integrated. On the [[LP]], alignment may be initiated and facilitated via efforts to establish the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], these being [[Right Thought]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]. <ref>{{LPBOOK1}}</ref></blockquote>		'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]] ([[Inner Alignment]]), and also one's family, community, and society ([[Outer Alignment]]). When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> When we are aligned, we are whole and integrated. On the [[LP]], alignment may be initiated and facilitated via efforts to establish the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], these being [[Right Thought]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]. <ref>{{LPBOOK1}}</ref></blockquote>

			[[File:Seven Essential Needs.png\|alt=Mike Sosteric's Seven Essential Needs \|center\|thumb\|Seven Essential Needs]]

	==Concept Map==		==Concept Map==
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			===List of Essential Needs Categories===

			[[Seven Essential Needs]] > {{#ask:[[Is an::Essential Need]]\|format=ul\|sort=sortneeds}}
	==Notes==		==Notes==

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	[[Is a::Connection Framework Part\| ]]		[[Is a::Connection Framework Part\| ]]
	[[Is an::LP Connection Framework Part\| ]]		[[Is an::LP Connection Framework Part\| ]]

Michael at 14:56, 23 December 2025

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			[[Is a related LP term::Big Problem\| ]]
	[[Is a related LP term::B-Realm\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::B-Realm\| ]]
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	[[Is a related LP term::Right Action\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Right Action\| ]]



	[[Is a related LP term::Unwanted Self\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Unwanted Self\| ]]

	[[Is a related LP term::Wrong Thought\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Wrong Thought\| ]]
	[[Is a related LP term::Wrong Action\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Wrong Action\| ]]

Michael at 14:54, 23 December 2025

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Michael at 15:49, 21 December 2025

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Michael at 15:40, 21 December 2025

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	[[Alignment]] {{#ask:[[Is a key term::~~Alignmentg~~]]\|format=ul}}		[[Alignment]] {{#ask:[[Is a key term::Alignment]]\|format=ul}}

	===The Three Rs of Alignment<ref>For more on the Three Rs, see Sosteric, Mike. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017.</ref>===		===The Three Rs of Alignment<ref>For more on the Three Rs, see Sosteric, Mike. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017.</ref>===
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	[[Is a related LP term::Spiritual Ego\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Spiritual Ego\| ]]

	~~[[Is a related LP term::Unwanted Self\| ]]~~
	[[Is a related LP term::Signal Emotions\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Signal Emotions\| ]]
	[[Is a related LP term::Steering Emotions\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Steering Emotions\| ]]

			[[Is a related LP term::Right Environment\| ]]
			[[Is a related LP term::Right Thought\| ]]
			[[Is a related LP term::Right Action\| ]]



			[[Is a related LP term::Unwanted Self\| ]]

	[[Is a related LP term::Wrong Thought\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Wrong Thought\| ]]
	[[Is a related LP term::Wrong Action\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Wrong Action\| ]]
	[[Is a related LP term::Wrong Environment\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Wrong Environment\| ]]
	~~[[Is a related LP term::Right Environment\| ]]~~
	~~[[Is a related LP term::Right Thought\| ]]~~
	~~[[Is a related LP term::Right Action\| ]]~~

	[[Is a related LP term::Violence\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Violence\| ]]
	[[Is a related LP term::The Four Unthinkables\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::The Four Unthinkables\| ]]
	[[Is a related LP term::Push-Pull\| ]]		[[Is a related LP term::Push-Pull\| ]]

Michael at 05:08, 20 December 2025

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	'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]], family, community, and society. When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> When we are aligned, we are whole and integrated. On the [[LP]], alignment ~~is achieved by establishing~~ the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], [[Right Thought]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]. <ref>{{LPBOOK1}}</ref></blockquote>		'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]] ([[Inner Alignment]]), and also one's family, community, and society ([[Outer Alignment]]). When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> When we are aligned, we are whole and integrated. On the [[LP]], alignment may be initiated and facilitated via efforts to establish the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], these being [[Right Thought]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]. <ref>{{LPBOOK1}}</ref></blockquote>

	==Concept Map==		==Concept Map==
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	==Notes==		==Notes==

	'''Maslow indicated the importance of alignment'''. "''Thus, most people feel happier as they become more integrated inwardly'' and more frightened as they become less integrated, for we ~~therebylose~~ our volition and its effectiveness. We lose our healthy ego, our “executive capacity.” Our self-unity becomes disrupted. "<ref>Hoffman, Edward, ed. ''Future Visions''. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 46.</ref>		On the LP we subsume the concept of [[Self-Actualization]] within the Needs Category of [[Alignment]]. The drive to self-actualization becomes the drive for [[Outer Alignment]]. The drive to align with the familial, social, and societal becomes the need for [[Outer Alignment]].

			'''Maslow indicated the importance of alignment'''. "''Thus, most people feel happier as they become more integrated inwardly'' and more frightened as they become less integrated, for we thereby lose our volition and its effectiveness. We lose our healthy ego, our “executive capacity.” Our self-unity becomes disrupted. "<ref>Hoffman, Edward, ed. ''Future Visions''. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 46.</ref>

	Alignment is one of six [[Connection Requirements]] listed in the LP [[Connection Framework]].		Alignment is one of six [[Connection Requirements]] listed in the LP [[Connection Framework]].

Michael at 12:50, 18 December 2025

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	'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]], family, community, and society. When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> On the [[LP]], alignment is achieved by establishing the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], [[Right Thought]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]. <ref>{{LPBOOK1}}</ref></blockquote>		'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]], family, community, and society. When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> When we are aligned, we are whole and integrated. On the [[LP]], alignment is achieved by establishing the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], [[Right Thought]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]. <ref>{{LPBOOK1}}</ref></blockquote>

	==Concept Map==		==Concept Map==
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	==Notes==		==Notes==

			'''Maslow indicated the importance of alignment'''. "''Thus, most people feel happier as they become more integrated inwardly'' and more frightened as they become less integrated, for we therebylose our volition and its effectiveness. We lose our healthy ego, our “executive capacity.” Our self-unity becomes disrupted. "<ref>Hoffman, Edward, ed. ''Future Visions''. Sage Publications, 1996. p. 46.</ref>

	Alignment is one of six [[Connection Requirements]] listed in the LP [[Connection Framework]].		Alignment is one of six [[Connection Requirements]] listed in the LP [[Connection Framework]].
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	His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.		His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

	For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; <sup>6</sup> and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. <sup>9</sup> But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. 2 Peter 1. </blockquote>		For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; <sup>6</sup> and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. <sup>9</sup> But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. 2 Peter 1.Literature </blockquote>'''The importance of truth and alignment:''' “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.” (Tolstoy 2016, 221)</blockquote>[[Ralp Waldo Emerson]] speaks of alignment and [[Right Action]]. in the context of aligning with the will of the "Over-soul"<blockquote>...that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which '''all right action is submission'''; that over-powering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak from his character and not from his tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.<ref>Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Over-Soul.” In ''The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson''. New York: Modern Library, 1950. p. 262. Emphasis added</ref></blockquote>[[William James]] "Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."<ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1903. [https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up.p https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up.]p.53.</ref>


	~~==== Literature ====~~

	'''The importance of truth and alignment:''' “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.” (Tolstoy 2016, 221)</blockquote>[[Ralp Waldo Emerson]] speaks of alignment and [[Right Action]]. in the context of aligning with the will of the "Over-soul"<blockquote>...that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which '''all right action is submission'''; that over-powering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak from his character and not from his tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.<ref>Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Over-Soul.” In ''The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson''. New York: Modern Library, 1950. p. 262. Emphasis added</ref></blockquote>[[William James]] "Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."<ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1903. [https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up.p https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up.]p.53.</ref>

	[[George Simmel]] intimates alignment when he speaks of the "strict demands and ideals" which form the foundation for religiosity."Religiousness thus can be seen in this light: as a form according to which the human soul experiences life and comprehends its existence-a form, incidentally, that is subject to the kind of strict demands and ideals, beyond the subjective, which a more naive " <ref>Simmel, George. ''Essays on Religion''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. p. 5.</ref>		[[George Simmel]] intimates alignment when he speaks of the "strict demands and ideals" which form the foundation for religiosity."Religiousness thus can be seen in this light: as a form according to which the human soul experiences life and comprehends its existence-a form, incidentally, that is subject to the kind of strict demands and ideals, beyond the subjective, which a more naive " <ref>Simmel, George. ''Essays on Religion''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. p. 5.</ref>

Michael at 03:00, 27 October 2025

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	'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]], family, community, and society. When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> On the [[LP]], alignment is achieved by establishing the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], [[Right Thought]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]. <ref>{{LPBOOK1}}</ref></blockquote>		'''Alignment''' is the extent to which one's [[Bodily Ego]] is in concordance with the will and perspective of one's [[Spiritual Ego]], family, community, and society. When we are aligned, we think, behave, and create a world that is in concordance with our [[Spiritual Ego]]/[[Highest Self]] and with reference to the values, norms, and reasonable expectations of others.<ref>Sosteric, Mike, and Gina Ratkovic. “It Takes a Village: Advancing Attachment Theory and Recovering the Roots of Human Health with the Seven Essential Needs,” 2021.</ref> On the [[LP]], alignment is achieved by establishing the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], [[Right Thought]], [[Right Action]], and [[Right Environment]]. <ref>{{LPBOOK1}}</ref></blockquote>

	==~~Components of Human Development~~ ==		==Concept Map==

	[[Human Development]] > {{#ask:[[Is a component::Human Development]]		===Key Terms===

			[[Human Development]] > {{#ask:[[Is a subcategory of::Human Development]]\|format=ul\|sort=Has sort order}}

			[[Seven Components of Human Development\|'''Seven Components of Human Development''']] > {{#ask:[[Is a component::Human Development]]
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	~~Full human development requires a healthy body (~~[[~~Healing~~]]), [[~~Aligned~~]]~~, [[connected]], and [[Integration~~\|~~integrated]] psyche, and an empowerment that facilitates personal and collective [[transformation]].~~		[[Alignment]] {{#ask:[[Is a key term::Alignmentg]]\|format=ul}}

	==The Three Rs of Alignment<ref>For more on the Three Rs, see Sosteric, Mike. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017.</ref>==		===The Three Rs of Alignment<ref>For more on the Three Rs, see Sosteric, Mike. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017.</ref>===

	[[Three Rs of Alignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a::Three R of Alignment]]}}		[[Three Rs of Alignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a::Three R of Alignment]]}}

	==The Three Ws of Misalignment<ref>For more on the Three Ws, see Sosteric, Mike. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017.</ref>==		===The Three Ws of Misalignment<ref>For more on the Three Ws, see Sosteric, Mike. Lightning Path Workbook Three - Connection. Vol. 3. Lightning Path Workbook Series. St. Albert, Alberta: Lightning Path Press, 2017.</ref>===

	[[Three Ws of Mislignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a::Three W of Misalignment]]}}		[[Three Ws of Mislignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a::Three W of Misalignment]]}}

	==Syncretic Terms==		===Syncretic Terms===

	[[Alignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Alignment]]}}		[[Alignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a syncretic term::Alignment]]}}

	==Related LP Terms==		===Related LP Terms===

	[[Alignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::Alignment]]}}		[[Alignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related LP term::Alignment]]}}

	==Non-LP Related Terms==		===Non-LP Related Terms===

	[[Alignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::Alignment]]}}		[[Alignment]] > {{#ask:[[Is a related term::Alignment]]}}

	==LP Connection Framework Focus Points==		===LP Connection Framework Focus Points===

	[[LP Connection Framework]] > {{#ask:[[Is an::LP Connection Framework Part]]}}		[[LP Connection Framework]] > {{#ask:[[Is an::LP Connection Framework Part]]}}
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	[[Is a component::Human Development]]		[[Is a component::Human Development\| ]]

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Michael at 18:35, 21 October 2025

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	==Quotes==		==Quotes==
	Yoga -> eight limbs of yoga (yoga sutra 1.12) includes "ethical discipline" and self-discipline as keys.		Yoga -> eight limbs of yoga (yoga sutra 1.12) includes "ethical discipline" and self-discipline as keys.


	<blockquote>There is nothing in the world easier than goodness and nothing more difficult than depravity. By ‘goodness’ is meant tranquility of mind, undisturbed by cupidity. By ‘depravity’ is meant a grasping spirit with many cravings. He who is satisfied with the simple needs of his nature, refusing the superflousdelights of the world, will not be tempted by any seductions. He who follows the law of his nature, will preserve his soul, without any inward conlicts. Hence the statement ‘It is easy to be good.’ Clambering up city walls, scaling dangerous heights, thieving the official keys, forging and stealing official money, rebelling and murdering, lying and bearing false witness, are acts contrary to human nature. Hence the saying, ‘It is diffcult to be bad.’ '''Huai Nan Tzû''' <ref>Perry, Whiteall N. ''A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom''. Lousville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2000.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>There is nothing in the world easier than goodness and nothing more difficult than depravity. By ‘goodness’ is meant tranquility of mind, undisturbed by cupidity. By ‘depravity’ is meant a grasping spirit with many cravings. He who is satisfied with the simple needs of his nature, refusing the superflousdelights of the world, will not be tempted by any seductions. He who follows the law of his nature, will preserve his soul, without any inward conlicts. Hence the statement ‘It is easy to be good.’ Clambering up city walls, scaling dangerous heights, thieving the official keys, forging and stealing official money, rebelling and murdering, lying and bearing false witness, are acts contrary to human nature. Hence the saying, ‘It is diffcult to be bad.’ '''Huai Nan Tzû''' <ref>Perry, Whiteall N. ''A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom''. Lousville, KY: Fons Vitae, 2000.</ref></blockquote>

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	“...at the bottom of your heart you know yourself that it is not true, that the existing organization has outlived its time, and must inevitably be reconstructed on new principles, and that consequently there is no obligation upon you to sacrifice your sentiments of humanity to support it.” (Tolstoy 2016, 219)		“...at the bottom of your heart you know yourself that it is not true, that the existing organization has outlived its time, and must inevitably be reconstructed on new principles, and that consequently there is no obligation upon you to sacrifice your sentiments of humanity to support it.” (Tolstoy 2016, 219)

			==== Christianity ====

			'''Alignment as a prerequisite to participation in the divine nature.'''

			<blockquote>

			His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

			For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; <sup>6</sup> and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. <sup>9</sup> But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. 2 Peter 1. </blockquote>


	The importance of truth and alignment: “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.” (Tolstoy 2016, 221)		==== Literature ====

	[[Ralp Waldo Emerson]] speaks of alignment and [[Right Action]]. in the context of aligning with the will of the "Over-soul"<blockquote>...that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which '''all right action is submission'''; that over-powering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak from his character and not from his tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.<ref>Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Over-Soul.” In ''The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson''. New York: Modern Library, 1950. p. 262. Emphasis added</ref></blockquote>[[William James]] "Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."<ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1903. [https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up.p https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up.]p.53.</ref>		'''The importance of truth and alignment:''' “The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man.” (Tolstoy 2016, 221)</blockquote>[[Ralp Waldo Emerson]] speaks of alignment and [[Right Action]]. in the context of aligning with the will of the "Over-soul"<blockquote>...that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other; that common heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship, to which '''all right action is submission'''; that over-powering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak from his character and not from his tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and beauty.<ref>Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “The Over-Soul.” In ''The Complete Essays and Other Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson''. New York: Modern Library, 1950. p. 262. Emphasis added</ref></blockquote>[[William James]] "Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto."<ref>James, William. ''The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study of Human Nature''. New York: Penguin, 1903. [https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up.p https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi03jamegoog/page/n6/mode/2up.]p.53.</ref>

	[[George Simmel]] intimates alignment when he speaks of the "strict demands and ideals" which form the foundation for religiosity."Religiousness thus can be seen in this light: as a form according to which the human soul experiences life and comprehends its existence-a form, incidentally, that is subject to the kind of strict demands and ideals, beyond the subjective, which a more naive " <ref>Simmel, George. ''Essays on Religion''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. p. 5.</ref>		[[George Simmel]] intimates alignment when he speaks of the "strict demands and ideals" which form the foundation for religiosity."Religiousness thus can be seen in this light: as a form according to which the human soul experiences life and comprehends its existence-a form, incidentally, that is subject to the kind of strict demands and ideals, beyond the subjective, which a more naive " <ref>Simmel, George. ''Essays on Religion''. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. p. 5.</ref>

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