About Me
I have a moral obligation to be self-reliant and to ensure conditions, which encourage self-determination and self-actualization for individuals and groups. This can best be achieved in an open and democratic society where individual rights and group rights are balanced. I value all social structures that promote wellbeing (e.g. friendship, family, community). The welfare of all people and our earth is of vital concern to us. My values are that which I seek to achieve or maintain according to my life as the standard of evaluation. My values are the motive power behind purposeful action. They are the ends to which I act. Without them, life would be impossible. Life requires self-generated action to sustain itself. Without values, one could not act, and death would follow. Value specifies a relationship between a person and a goal. A value requires a particular person who aims to achieve or maintain something. An object cannot have value in itself. Value is relational, and so requires a person and a goal. The goal to which one aims is called the "value", but the relationship is always required. This means an object cannot be a value in itself. It only gains the title of value when a person acts to achieve or maintain it.
In my view, personal development has to be understood in terms of human experience of life and the orientation of life, which is connected with it. This orientation has a spiritual and a moral aspect, which may be distinguished analytically, but which cannot be understood to be separate things. A person’s moral orientation is, namely, not to be thought of as the practical implementation of an inner attitude, but rather as the practical manner in which persons meaningfully relate to their surroundings, making deliberate choices and/or realizing meaning in a more implicit way. Also, a person’s spiritual orientation is not to be understood to be some unpractical inner attitude, but rather as the affective and experiential aspect of the way in which we relate practically towards our surroundings. My point of view is that every person, in developing itself, carries the weight of some traditions and worldviews, but only by way of integrating these in personal experience and orientation of life.