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How Are You Experiencing Patience/Insight?

Are there areas of life in which you are particularly challenged to be patient or present?

Are there ways in which you tend to be overly apathetic or experience lots of tension?

Refer to the Virtue Star for Patience.
How do you experience the extremes of this virtue?
Consider the contemplation questions listed in the main post for Navigating Extremes with Virtue at the top of this thread. What are you noticing?

 

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How Are You Experiencing Contentment / Equanimity?

Are there areas of life in which you are particularly challenged to be kind or in being too complacent?

Are there ways in which you tend to be overly willful or blaming of others?

Refer to the Virtue Star for Equanimity.
How do you experience the extremes of this virtue?
Consider the contemplation questions listed in the main post for Navigating Extremes with Virtue at the top of this thread. What are you noticing?

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How Are You Experiencing Kindness / Candidness?

Are there areas of life in which you are particularly challenged to be unconventional or in being too audacious?

Are there ways in which you tend to be overly kind or courteous, just to save face or “make nice?”

Refer to the Virtue Star for Kindness.
How do you experience the extremes of this virtue?
Consider the contemplation questions listed in the main post for Navigating Extremes with Virtue at the top of this thread. What are you noticing?

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How Are You Experiencing Compassion / Self-Affirmation?

Are there areas of life in which you are particularly challenged to not dissolve into the energy or situations of others?

Are there ways in which you might over assert yourself or make everything all about you?

Refer to the Virtue Star for Compassion.
How do you experience the extremes of this virtue?
Consider the contemplation questions listed in the main post for Navigating Extremes with Virtue at the top of this thread. What are you noticing?

 

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That’s a very wise Wise Self!  :-)

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Hi Parzival Friends,

Brian shared this article, which is a great sharing of how intensely our culture can cause one to lose themselves.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/half-black-biracial-passing-white-america_n_5ff5ef1ec5b6ea7351c74e66?d_id=3074582&ncid_tag=fcbklnkushpmg00000047&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=us_black_voices&fbclid=IwAR1QtY7vZsmUmPp9iLSZL3PUWV-7pOC72kXFsvy6IllR3prIsFb4oVC3QOA

 

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How Are You Experiencing Catharsis / Inner Transformation?

Are there areas of life in which you are particularly challenged to allow for Ego Strength or perhaps too egotistical?

Are there ways in which you tend to lose your True Self to your small self through unhealthy selflessness?

Refer to the Virtue Star for Love.
How do you experience the extremes of this virtue?
Consider the contemplation questions listed in the main post for Navigating Extremes with Virtue at the top of this thread. What are you noticing?

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How do you define Perseverance for yourself?

Are there areas of life in which you are particularly challenged to Persevere and/or be Dependable?

Are you a big fanatical about certain things? Or fatalistic about other things?

Refer to the Virtue Star for Perseverance.
How do you experience the extremes of this virtue?
Consider the contemplation questions listed in the main post for Navigating Extremes with Virtue at the top of this thread. What are you noticing?

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How do you define Integrigy for yourself?

Are there areas of life in which you are particularly challenged to Discern and/or Communicate?

Refer to the Virtue Star for Integrity.
How do you experience the extremes of this virtue?
Consider the contemplation questions listed in the main post for Navigating Extremes with Virtue at the top of this thread. What are you noticing?

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How Are You Experiencing Devotion?

Are there areas of life in which you are particularly challenged to have Self-Confidence?

In what ways is Devotion living with or in you?

Refer to the Virtue Star for Devotion.
How do you experience the extremes of this virtue?
Consider the contemplation questions listed in the main post for Navigating Extremes with Virtue at the top of this thread. What are you noticing?

 

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How Are You Experiencing Love?

Are there areas of life in which you are particularly challenged to Self-Discipline?

In what ways is Love living with or in you?

• Refer to the Virtue Star for Love.
• How do you experience the extremes of this virtue?
• Consider the contemplation questions listed in the main post for Navigating Extremes with Virtue at the top of this thread. What are you noticing?

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How do you define Discernment for yourself?

Are there areas of life in which you are particularly challenged to Discern and/or Communicate?

• Refer to the Virtue Star for Discernment.
• How do you experience the extremes of this virtue?
• Consider the contemplation questions listed in the main post for Navigating Extremes with Virtue at the top of this thread. What are you noticing?

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How are you practicing and experiencing Courage in your life?

How do you define Courage for yourself?

Are there areas of life in which you are particularly challenged to find Courage?

• Refer to the Virtue Star for Courage.
• How do you experience the extremes of this virtue?
• Consider the contemplation questions listed in the main post for Navigating Extremes with Virtue at the top of this thread. What are you noticing?

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“Fix your course on a star and you’ll navigate any storm.”

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

(A great reminder of the importance of our virtue stars ;-) )

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“The soul that loves will spend half its time in joy and half its time in sorrow.”

~J. W. von Goethe

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