There is no longer a consensus in society about right and wrong. Yet we can probably agree on a few basic principles. A test of these principles must be that they are self-evident: No one can oppose them, everyone can agree with them.

COMPARE QUEST PATH: MAIN INVITATIONS.

Understanding
Thoughtfulness. Ability to think, reflect, discuss, and understand. Find the causes of external issues and problems, and act at the root level.

Relationship
Compassion. Empathy, kindness, helpfulness, well-being. Serve both the external and underlying needs of all involved. Do not mislead or take advantage of others for your own benefit.

Action
Build understanding, relationship, beauty, and spirituality in practice. Take the human element and inner life into account.

Creativity
Make inner beauty visible. Practical expressions of the good, true, beautiful, love and the sacred.

Being (?)
The gentle virtues: Humility, gentleness, purity, inwardness, soulfulness.

1. Truth, love, beauty, good, and the sacred exist. 2. The human functions corresponding to these are perceiving, relationship, creation, action, and being. 3. Superficial human functions – ignorance, hate, sensuality, bigotry and profanity – result in suffering. 4. The deep human functions are understanding, love, creativity, goodness and spirituality. 5. These make it possible to express the dimensions of reality in our practical life in society.