Principles

Adam Wes All right, let's get started. Let's begin with the meditation. A couple of minutes.

Namaste. Welcome, everybody. Hi, Kira. Hi, Mom. Hi, Ariella. Hi, everybody else.

Ariella, how's your practice going?

Ariella My husband had surgery, and I have been very focused on him, and also on issues with my mother in South Africa. I'm sorry, I have not been able to focus on my practice.

Adam Wes You don't have to make an excuse. That's just reinforcing your reasons anyway. The whole idea about meditation is that it gives you clarity, so you're leveraged in the way you manage your life, unless you literally do not have enough time.

If there's a lot going on, the whole idea is that this is a leveraged way to deal with life circumstances, because it brings within you an abundance of detached love and an abundance of stillness, which gives you clarity so your decisions are correct.

Unless you just have to dig ditches for 14 hours a day. Even then, maybe sitting down and meditating halfway through digging ditches will probably get the nervous system in a state where it can have more time.

Nobody needs to make an excuse. You can just say, "I didn't do it yet," because do you have five minutes a day? Of course you have five minutes, right? Five minutes a day would be enough to say, "I didn't do a lot, but I did five minutes every day." Consistency is what matters here.

Five minutes a day means it's a part of your life. Zero means it's not even a second thought, right? This is one of the challenges, not with any one individual, but with most people. They don't know how to get into meditating consistently.

Ariella When I go to bed at night, I say a short prayer, and I go into the light, into the light of the Divine. I don't know if that counts.

Colleen It sounds like meditation to me.

Adam Wes Of course it counts. That counts, Ariella. How long do you go into the light?

Ariella About three minutes, but I can certainly increase that to five minutes.

Adam Wes Do five minutes. Light of the Divine, that's what we call meditation here at the Love Light Sangha. That's wonderful. Good job.

Mom, you did meditation this week. Yay!

Colleen I did some. I didn't have a good excuse, like things going on in my life, but I keep busy in my own way, and then I forget. So I only did it three times.

Adam Wes That's progress. Good. We're not Olympic-level meditators yet, if that's the case. Where's the Olympic team I'm looking for here?

I don't know how you guys do it. If I don't meditate, I don't feel good. I don't feel magical, and I don't like that. I start to feel mundane when I don't meditate, so maybe you need to find the discomfort in not attending to your spirit, especially for very spiritual people.

Today's sermon is on principles. Principles.

This is an essential aspect of being true to yourself and happiness.

"Principle," in the way that I'm using it here semantically, is a way that you engage with things in your life, a way that you relate to circumstances.

One person may have a principle of, "Whenever I do something, I'm very considerate." Somebody might have a principle of, "Whenever I do something, I'm very efficient." Maybe somebody has both of those. Usually one may be prioritized over the other. They're slightly in conflict.

Cool could be a principle.

There are various forms of principles that people have that inform the way they relate to life and circumstances. Principles are a constant of response amidst change.

Most people unconsciously have a set of principles that they usually inherit. There are all kinds of principles that people may have. One might be, "Everything I do, I'm cool."

Have you ever seen those people? What's that movie you like so much from the '50s? They're all smoking. It's about rival gangs. They recently did a remake of it. West Side Story.

In West Side Story, their principle is cool. Everything is about being cool.

Each of us has a set of principles that we may consciously be applying, or we may have, more importantly, a set of principles that is much deeper and subtler. They're the principles that we would want to live by.

Principles are a dimension. They're an ineffable dimension of awareness that we inhabit. When we live to be cool, when we live to be efficient, when we live to be considerate, we experience a subjective, ineffable state of mind.

This is all involved in spirituality. What are your principles? It's involved in being true to yourself.

A lot of people don't consciously know what their principles are, and therefore they don't have the clarity to maintain integrity. They don't have the clarity to be the truest expression of their spirit.

Part of enlightenment is being conscious about who you are and who you're choosing to be. Principles are involved in that.

It's important to become aware of your five top principles. I would say every individual might be able to delineate five top principles that are most endemic to their spirit, their personality, and who they want to be in life.

Principles give us a very special gift. From moment to moment, we get to be who we want to be. There's a gift in the integrity of showing up in any situation as who you really are.

We can't always control circumstances, but we can control the way we show up. When we have that as a constant, it creates peace of mind, and it creates a sort of joy of integrity. It's a feeling of, "Okay, well, I'm still getting to be me."

It can be difficult to maintain the principles that you really want. For example, you may be considerate until you lose your temper, or you may be considerate until it's just too inconvenient to be considerate. But then we always feel that discord: "I'm a considerate person, but I just wasn't being considerate, and I value that so much." There's this feeling of discord within.

Part of knowing one's principles is being true to them in all circumstances. This is a measure of integrity.

Our collection of principles is ineffable. It's beyond words. Just because one person has the principle of being, let's say, efficient, another person may have that same word as their principle, but it won't be the same thing. For every individual, there's a subtle difference. They may be very closely related, or they may be very different, in fact, because they may have very different semantic definitions of it.

We need to use the word to find the principle that's the truest expression of what we are. A lot of times, you can just feel your heart and say, "Does that feel right? Is that who I want to be? Is that the principle I want to live by?"

Contemplation, which is one of the three pillars that we went over last week, is a very important practice regarding your principles. This week, you could contemplate your principles and say, "Okay, what are my principles? Who am I?"

You can play a little isolation game with it. You say, "Okay, if I were in this situation, would I prioritize this principle or this principle?" You can say, "Well, I would do this," or, "What would I want to do?"

Ask what your aspiration is. I think that's perhaps more aligned. It's not about your capacity to do it. It's about your aspiration, because a capacity can develop and evolve toward that aspiration.

I have five principles. One of them actually is really two, so now I think of it as six, but for a long time I thought of it as five. I'm very happy when I am in touch with those principles.

One of them is gentleness. I love to be gentle. I don't like to be not gentle. When I'm not gentle, I'm like, "Whoa, that's not who I want to be."

Gentleness in every way. Principles apply to everything we do. When you pour a glass of tea, be gentle. When you do math, be gentle. When you drive your car, be gentle. That means no crazy screeching, no honking, no jolting, right?

There may be somebody who has a principle of speed, somebody who loves motorcycles and race cars. For them, they wouldn't want to be gentle when they drive, right? They might say speed and safety, somehow, together.

What are the principles that you live by? This is a key thing. Understand that it's the law of response to circumstantial conditions.

Mom, do you know your principles? I could tell you a bunch of your principles, since I know you so well.

Colleen You said you had five principles. You told us gentleness.

Adam Wes I told you one. Another thing about principles is that if you really become attuned to your own, you can often see them in another person. That's a very important quality, first, if you want to help another person, and second, if you want to deal with another person, especially if they're problematic.

Kindness is another one of my principles. With a principle, you get to be the person you want to be. You get to be that person, and then your actions unfold in certain situations.

This is very much associated with karma. When you know the karmic repercussions, how your attention field changes as a result of your actions, you'll be very selective about your principles.

I love heart and light. Gentleness and kindness are very, very good for the karma of heart and light. If you're the opposite of those two things, it's harder to access heart and light. This is part of the reason those are two of my favorite principles.

Does anybody want to share a couple of their principles before we go on?

Kira I think positivity is one of my principles. It seems inherent. It's not one that I'm actively trying to do, but it is a natural principle. I feel that I don't have to try hard to do that one. I think it's just going on.

Adam Wes It's not about trying hard at all. When you're embodying these, there is no trying, unless you're rebuilding your karma. Then you're evolving.

In fact, the one that's probably easiest for you, if you're in alignment with yourself, is a very top principle.

Because she said it, I'll say that positivity is actually another one of my principles, very much so. The people who are in your life tend to be similar.

Kira and I both love positivity. That's actually one of the things that we experience together when we get together. We reinforce each other's positivity, and we get along that well because that's the way we do things.

Some people are very different. They'll get together and they'll be very negative, and they want that. That's not what we tend to do.

Kira, you're one of the most positive people I've met, which is why I think you're such a good friend. That's one of my absolute top principles.

Colleen? Mom?

Colleen I like positivity. I like kindness. I like gentleness. I'm still thinking.

Adam Wes May I share which one really stands out for you? Kindness. This is the kindest person I've pretty much ever encountered in the whole world, right here, my own mom.

Colleen Well, that's good. Thank you.

Adam Wes You live by that. You would choose kindness over just about anything else, I would say, in almost any situation.

It's fun to figure out what your principles are. Some people have five principles, but some people have one. You may have one principle. Somebody who's very, very focused may only care about one thing.

Some sages do this. I don't think it's necessarily required for a sage, but I've seen some sages do it. Think of the sage who's just truth, or just honesty. They don't care about anything else. They're going to do truth, truth, truth.

It's a little bit more difficult when you start mixing them together, although perhaps there's an underlying principle that they're all really pointing to. It depends how you think about it.

Kindness, positivity, and gentleness, maybe the principle there is heart. Yes, Ariella?

Ariella My principle is to be loving, but I think it includes gentleness, kindness, and positivity.

Adam Wes Nice. Beautiful.

When you look at this, one of the things I was contemplating today is that I was describing it as a basis in mathematics. This is like X, Y, and Z. When you put them together, you can go anywhere in this three-dimensional space by adding them.

One can make a distinction between a principle and a value. A value is something that I find valuable in the world, in life. A principle is the way that you are.

Your principles are closely connected to your values. If you value heart and love, you're going to act in certain ways. This needs to be subjectively defined for each individual. Try to make a distinction between those.

Is loving the principle? It's both, right? It's an interesting thing to look at. Is there a distinction? Maybe when you look at being loving, they're different in that space of loving.

Sometimes gentleness and positivity are very different things. Gentleness might be very quiet. Positive might be really bright. Positive might be very quiet as well.

Thanks for sharing, Ariella.

The concepts here are karma and principles. Principles in relation to values we'll do another week. Values are a different thing.

Delineate your principles. Maybe do your top three, your top one, or your top five. I tend to do the top six. I have another five or six more that I could talk about, but generally it's these six.

Those six are the way I maintain an assessment of my alignment. Like, "Okay, is it this, this, this, this, this?"

Colleen Would you consider gratitude a principle?

Adam Wes That was just in my mind. Gratitude is my fourth principle. You guys are getting a lot of them.

Perhaps that's your principle too, Mom. I used to pair that with positivity because gratitude is a very positive thing. But actually, for me, I think they're pretty separate. Positivity and gratitude should be considered separately.

Kira Mindfulness.

Adam Wes Fine. Kira's right. My fifth one is mindfulness. Mindfulness is very, very important. Mindfulness and silence go together.

Yes, mindfulness is another one of my principles. I think it says a lot about how intense one is about their principles. I really take these things seriously.

If I'm pulled from mindfulness, if I'm pulled from kindness by the expectations of others, I'll really be like, "No, get away from me. I'm going to be mindful whether you like it or not."

The other one is independence. Independence is very much related to freedom and peace. When you have independence, you have a lot of peace because you're not constantly pulled by dependency.

When I say it, I don't mean circumstantially as much, although that too. I want circumstantial independence as well, but it's more the inner independence, the independence from needing to escape into entertainment.

Independence is my sixth principle. Now you know my six principles, and you know a lot about me. This will be publicly on the website, so maybe other people will know about my six principles, but that's okay. These principles are very essential to enlightenment.

Colin W What about integrity?

Adam Wes Integrity could be a principle. I usually think of integrity as more of a meta-principle, although that might be a principle for somebody. They might say, "No matter what my situation is, all that matters is that I'm true to myself and that I'm following my principles." That could be something they emphasize. So yes, beautiful. That's a good one.

You know what's interesting? I just realized that your semantic definition for integrity has a little bit more richness and specificity than the one I'm using right now.

Colin W There are basically different aspects to integrity. For example, you and Mom will not cross the road unless you're at a pedestrian crossing, because that's part of your integrity. I would have no hesitation to cross the road in the middle and jaywalk, because I'm a bit of a rebel, but I still don't compromise my own integrity.

Unfortunately, that doesn't go very well with a capitalistic system, because we're being cheated left, right, and center. Ultimately, it all comes down to money. But still, if you take Costco as an example, you can still do that. This is a Costco plug.

Adam Wes I love hearing you share today, Dad. Thank you. That was awesome.

One of your principles is a little bit of bending the rules out of some form of justice. That's maybe a word for it.

I feel that maybe that's one of your principles too. It's integrity and justice. What you're talking about is the injustice that you feel, and how justice makes you jaywalk when, to you, there shouldn't be a rule about that right there.

Mom and I like to follow the rules to a T, because there's a little bit of respect, integrity, or trust there. There's an emphasis on it in that certain way.

Praveen, would you like to join in?

Praveen S Yes, Adam. I've seen these principles in some other people, which I would like to embody. The first ones are humility, patience, and tolerance. I have seen this consistently in many of the CHS.

Adam Wes Beautiful. That's interesting. I love those three as well. I'm thinking, "Wow, patience, tolerance, and humility." Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing, Praveen.

It's interesting to try to think, "What do I emphasize?" If you go for a walk, you can walk with all your principles. What's your swagger? What's your gait?

Do you walk to be cool? Do you walk to be humble? Maybe put your hands behind your back, right? That's the humble thing. Do you walk to be efficient? Do you walk to be kind? They're all different energies. You can embody the energy with the most minimal actions.

Try to embody all five principles on your walk at the same time. There's a level of mastery involved in this. It's the mastery of yourself. It's to be a connoisseur of consciousness, of your own consciousness. A connoisseur of consciousness. That's actually something I came up with earlier that I wanted to share with you.

Revise, refine, and bring forth the fullest expression of those principles within yourself. Contemplate them. Perhaps once a week, maybe every Tuesday, you contemplate them. Or maybe you contemplate them for this whole week and get really clear on them.

I've spent years and years contemplating these and really getting clear on what it means for me to be who I want to be.

When you meditate, you can actually do them too. Praveen, when you meditate, you can meditate on humility. You meditate on the light, but you can say, "Okay, well, I'm humility right now."

It's really a beautiful thing to be extreme in your principles. Take those three principles that you just shared and take them to an extreme, and enjoy that. It's fun.

That's an interesting way to look at it. This isn't about, "Oh no, I have to do my principles." It's fun to do your principles. It's fun to show up and be humble to the extreme, tolerant to the extreme, integrity to the extreme, kindness to the extreme.

It's fun to do that, and it helps us progress to enlightenment because we're consciously choosing something that is good karma.

Cool could be a principle of yours. Think of that as being playfully true to yourself. "Everything I do is cool."

Sometimes I meet a guy or a girl who's just all about being cool, and you can tell by the way they dress and the way they walk. As long as it's not about ego, but about full self-expression, that's fine.

Think about the jazz musician who's just so cool. I just thought of a guy I used to play music with. He was just the coolest guy, and we all wanted him to be cool because that's who he was.

That guy used to do a burlesque show where he was singing. He would wear these 1920s overalls. He was a big Black guy, and he would be smoking a cigar on the stage, singing spoken word in a dive bar.

He would just be cool. He'd be on stage, smoke would be drifting, the spotlight would be shining through it, there would be burlesque dancers, and he'd be singing in a very chill way. He was just being himself.

Finding out what your principles are is very much an artistic mentality.

Colin W Are you talking about Chet Baker?

Adam Wes Nice, Dad. No. What was that guy's name? I'm forgetting his name. He plays in Santa Monica, or he used to. He had me come and play as a backup musician for him one time. You remember I used to go to those hotels and play 12 or 13 years ago, maybe.

Andrea! Well, Andrea is two minutes late for being one hour late.

Andrea P What?

Adam Wes It's at the same time every week!

Andrea P I don't know. It was an hour before. Sorry, I have too many things. I was thinking it was at eight, and then I was like, "Is it at eight? Maybe it was at seven?" I'm not sure. Well, hi and bye. Sorry.

Adam Wes I was going to text you, but then I thought, "I don't want to be annoying and text everybody every time before the session."

Andrea P I will meditate now.

Adam Wes Today we talked about principles. We actually didn't even do our meditation today, largely because the internet has been in and out. But it's so good to see you, even for a moment.

Andrea P Also, David didn't come because he broke his knee. He just texted me, so just so you know.

Adam Wes That's horrible.

Andrea P Please send him good vibes.

Adam Wes We'll have to message David and send him get-well wishes, if that's your principle.

Just to sum it up for Andrea, principles are the way we engage with life. They're a constant of our integrity. It's how we relate to things and how we hold our energy.

We went through my principles, which are kindness, gratitude, gentleness, positivity, mindfulness, and independence. Those are my five, or six. It used to be five, but I split gratitude and positivity.

The whole idea is to contemplate your principles. Find out what principles are most endemic to you, and really refine them and master them.

Could you go on a walk and embody all your principles? Could you make dinner or breakfast and embody all your principles? You can meditate on the principles and feel them.

Praveen said humility, tolerance, and patience were his principles. Kira's is positivity, Colleen's is kindness, and Ariella's is love.

Think about your principles. Try to find out who you really want to be. When you choose your principles consciously, it helps generate the right kind of karma.

Make sure your principles are true to yourself and aligned with enlightenment. They should be principles that help you move into states of disillusion and freedom and greater consciousness.

Principles can also be very playful. Playfulness might be your principle, right? I'm sure you guys have met people who are just constantly playful. Coolness might be your principle.

If you're an entrepreneur, one of the principles I used to live by was absolute efficiency. That was a big thing for me. Total efficiency. I used to live by that, or diligence. I used to live by that. Just get as much work done as possible, period.

I didn't care if it was kind. That was not very good for my karma when I was doing that. I used to think, "Okay, well, I need to make this business happen," and then I really pushed through everything, and I wasn't necessarily kind.

Kindness can sometimes take more work, but now I understand that kindness is ultimately quite efficient, because in kindness we collaborate, we don't create problems for ourselves, and we use gravity to make things happen.

Principles can change, but ultimately we want to find the principles most central to who we are.

This week, think about your principles. This is different from values. A value is what you care about, what you find valuable, like human connection or healthy food.

Andrea P Like community.

Adam Wes Yes, those are generally values. Your principles and values will be related to each other, because if your principles don't enforce your values, you probably need to adjust them. Otherwise, you won't be getting what you really want.

Andrea P I love it. I will work on that.

Adam Wes Wonderful. That's the topic for this week. It was a small group, and my dad had some beautiful stuff to share. His was integrity, and I think justice is one of his principles. Integrity and justice.

Namaste, everybody. Let's do a ten-second meditation.

Nice, Kira. I love that. Does everybody want to put their principles in the chat? Give it a go.

Remember, a principle is a way of holding your energy and a way of responding to things.

Could you close your car door with that principle? Maybe ask a silly question: "Can I close my car door with kindness?" Yes.

I always personify my things. I say hi to all the things in my apartment. "Hi, Crystal. Hi, Cup." I really do that. "Hi, Cup. It's so nice to see you today." It allows me to practice kindness with everything.

Friendliness. Nice, Kira.

Maybe take a moment and write down 20 principles. Just write down all your principles, and then contemplate them, refine them, and get clear. Do I have five? Do I have one?

I love seeing everybody write your principles in here. Wonderful. Let's see everybody's principles.

Praveen has a nice list. Praveen, you're great. Good job. I love this.

When you're looking at other people, consider, "What are their principles? Is this person my best friend because we share 80 percent of the same principles, or all the same principles?"

A principle could be simplicity or silence. To me, that's all involved in mindfulness and independence.

When you find that word, it points to an ineffable reality beyond the principle. Think of it as a portal for you. You're like, "Okay, whenever I say kindness, I feel it. It means something to me. It helps me step into this thing that's beyond words. It's personal to me."

Next week, the spring cohort starts. Wait, let's meditate for a second. Let's do one minute of meditation, and then I'll do an announcement, and then we'll get off. Otherwise, it feels funny not to have at least a little meditation.

That felt wonderful. I saw a lot of light immediately. You can stay in your light, Mom, if you want.

Because I went into light, I saw five more things about principles. Businesses hold principles. If you look at Microsoft, Apple, Tesla, or SpaceX, they usually have a set of principles that they live by and embody.

Music too. If you listen to that song we were just listening to, artists have a set of principles. You can start contemplating principles in general.

The spring cohort starts next week, which means there will be new people here. I'm going to do a five-part series on Introduction to Enlightenment for the next five Love Light Sanghas.

Also, we have the Meditation Resolution happening again. We did it four months ago. It's been a third of a year, and we're doing it again. I'd love for everybody to join and represent.

It's at 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and it will be integrated into the Tuesday night class. I've got pricing based on country on the website, so if you go to the website, it's all there.

If you need a scholarship, just let me know. It's paramount to me that everybody is there. If you need it, just let me know and we'll figure something out. If you can pay it, wonderful. That will be very supportive and helpful.

I'm advertising right now, so hopefully we'll have a whole bunch of new Sangha friendships and a beautiful experience with people. I'd love to have a big group. Invite your friends. It would be great.

Andrea had the original idea for the Meditation Resolution back in December. She said, "Why don't you do this?" So we're doing it again, Andrea. Hopefully you can make it.

There's also Coding Constellations. We're doing a new coding series that's for total beginners. If you want to do something, this is the time to do it. It's for coding and math.

It's total beginner coding, and we're focused on a pretty simple math topic. It's not that simple, but it's trigonometry. Trigonometry is pretty accessible, and I think it's very intuitive, so you can get to know some math as well, if you're interested in that.

If you go to the website, there's a little thing that says "Spring." There's also a pop-up that jumps right up, which will give you a link to it.

Andrea, will you put an alarm or a timer or something so that you know when the class starts, and be five minutes early?

Andrea P Yes. I'm always early, but today was crazy. Actually, I have an alarm to meditate every day at 7 p.m., and it sounded. I was like, "No, no, this is at eight." I don't know.

Adam Wes For you right now, it's 8:15?

Andrea P Yes.

Adam Wes You're one hour off. I love that you do that. You're meditating at the time we're planning to meditate anyway.

By the way, with the Meditation Resolution, I'm planning to keep it a little bit simpler this time. It will be 15 minutes, maybe 16. There's no giant introduction to it.

Ariella, we're talking about the Meditation Resolution, which you really should do. It starts next week and goes for 31 days. It's 15 minutes a day at 6 p.m., exactly 15 minutes.

Because we're doing it with the Love Light Sangha, we don't have to have a separate thing for it. It's a little more streamlined than it was last time. The plan is to keep it to just 15 minutes.

Why did you make a face, Andrea?

Andrea P No, I just got it.

Adam Wes I'm always listening with my eyes.

Ariella, if you go to the website, I highly recommend you do it. Invite your friends. Please invite your friends.

Ariella What is the website?

Adam Wes SFI dot school slash spring.

Ariella Oh my goodness, I need to write that down.

Adam Wes I'll text it to you.

Ariella Yes, please.

Adam Wes If you invite your friends, this is something that's really good for a beginner. Everybody knows that they should be meditating, so this is kind of like, "Okay, this is my chance to be responsible with my spirituality and do it."

Whether or not people continue, you could invite some of your children or some of your friends who might have been saying all these years, "I want to meditate every day."

I'll be there supporting everybody with consistency. That's the primary value proposition for this.

Kira, I know you're super busy, so we'll keep it to 15 minutes. Once I'm in the room with everybody, I want to go for 45 minutes, but we can't do it.

All right, guys. I'll see you soon. We went over today, but that's because the internet was really crazy, and it had a lot to do with Andrea being late, because she started our session over again. It's all your fault.

Andrea P You're welcome.

Adam Wes Sorry and you're welcome, exactly.

All right, Praveen, nice to see you. Bye, Mom. Good job today. Contemplate your principles.

Ariella Thank you so much. Love and blessings.

Adam Wes Love and blessings.

Become conscious of the principles most central to who you are, then embody them consistently in meditation and everyday life.

• Meditation brings detached love, stillness, and clarity to the way circumstances are managed.
• Even five minutes a day makes meditation a part of life. Consistency is what matters.
• A principle is a way of engaging with life and responding to circumstances.
• Principles are a constant of response amidst change.
• Becoming conscious of personal principles supports integrity and the truest expression of one’s spirit.
• Principles are identified according to aspiration, not present capacity.
• A value is something found valuable in life, while a principle is the way a person is.
• Principles and values are closely connected. Principles should enforce what is truly valued.
• Principles can be embodied through minimal actions, including walking, driving, preparing food, working, and closing a car door.
• Words such as kindness, gentleness, gratitude, positivity, mindfulness, and independence can point to a personal reality beyond words.
• Being true to one’s principles in all circumstances is a measure of integrity.
• Choosing principles consciously affects karma and supports movement toward freedom and greater consciousness.

Write down the principles most central to who you want to be, whether there is one, three, or five. Contemplate them, refine the words until they feel true in your heart, and notice how they can be embodied in the smallest actions of daily life.

• Five minutes of meditation each day, with attention to consistency.
• Contemplation of the question, “What are my principles? Who am I?”
• Attention to aspiration when choosing between possible principles.
• Awareness of how personal principles appear in walking, preparing food, driving, working, and relating to others.
• Noticing moments of alignment with a chosen principle and moments of inner discord.
• Embodiment of a principle during meditation or while going for a walk.

• Which principle feels most central to who you want to be?
• What does it feel like when you are true to that principle?
• How might that principle be present in one small action today?