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GUIDING
PRINCIPLES |
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We aspire to live
and practice the following principles in our individual and collective
life.
- To bring increasing awareness to
our interior and exterior lives.
- To see every experience in life
as an opportunity to grow.
- To take responsibility for our
intentions, thoughts, feelings, and actions in every
communication and interaction.
- To develop a personal practice
that fosters inner peace and skillful action.
- To see our outer life in the world
as a reflection of our inner state and experience.
- To remember that each of our lives
is an interaction of our inner life and our outer life
in the world.
- To understand that our life
in the world includes participation in multiple roles,
relationships and
communities, each of which may hold different values and each
of
which affects us in different ways.
- To be willing to explore our
cultural norms, family patterns, personal values and
defensive routines
as part of our commitment to our own development and our
capacity
to relate to others in an unbiased and open way.
- To act in ways that create
a safe container for each other.
- To engage in authentic dialogue
that seeks to surface what is true for both the
individual and
the community.
- To seek to enter every situation
from a centered place.
- To be aware of the quality
of our energy and its effect on those around us.
- To recognize that we all
have blind spots, and that our interactions with others help
us recognize
what they are.
- To value each other, blind spots
and all.
- To seek the highest good in every
relationship and situation.
- To always say what is true, to
always be kind, to only say what is useful.
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