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Peace
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: Peace
Why do we fight our own brothers and sisters? Can conflict be resolved at the root?
Peace means living in a way that the other person is as important as you. It means putting an end to war in ourselves.
 
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What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?
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What share do you have in the world’s confusion and wickedness?
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Spirituality
A Visionary Society Quest
Do not humiliate anyone
Look for the good in everything
Find out how you agree with others, not on how you differ
Find the transcendent quality in everything
Look at evil with the eyes of a mother
Transcend your personal identity
Look upon others as the expression of the divine

Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality
 
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Politics
Turn a political issue into a Quest
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: Politics
Are you fed up with politics, but still want to be involved in the issues of the day? Is government that recognizes heart and soul possible? Can the citizen make a difference? Are you worthy of democracy? Does politics have to be adversarial? What does it mean to vote with your life?
 
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What political issue do you care about?
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Spirituality
A Visionary Society Quest
Do not humiliate anyone
Look for the good in everything
Find out how you agree with others, not on how you differ
Find the transcendent quality in everything
Look at evil with the eyes of a mother
Transcend your personal identity
Look upon others as the expression of the divine

Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality
 
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Culture
What is explosive creativity?
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: Culture
Can we combat mass culture? What is the purpose of art? How can we fight nihilistic culture without becoming self-righteous?
What is the difference between outer and inner beauty? Are there objective standards for culture? What is creativity?
 
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How do you participate in culture?
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How do you participate in culture?
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Spirituality
A Visionary Society Quest
Do not humiliate anyone
Look for the good in everything
Find out how you agree with others, not on how you differ
Find the transcendent quality in everything
Look at evil with the eyes of a mother
Transcend your personal identity
Look upon others as the expression of the divine

Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality
 
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Money
Just doing your job is lamentable
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: Money
Money is the life-blood of society. But it suppresses us. It keeps us working at jobs we don’t care about. It stops us from having time to achieve our dreams. We can do better. We can use money to create a more beautiful society.
 
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"Aren't you ashamed that you give your attention to getting as much money as possible?"
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"Aren't you ashamed that you give your attention to getting as much money as possible?"
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Do not humiliate anyone
Look for the good in everything
Find out how you agree with others, not on how you differ
Find the transcendent quality in everything
Look at evil with the eyes of a mother
Transcend your personal identity
Look upon others as the expression of the divine

Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality
 
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Spirituality
Find the good in anything
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: Spirituality
Is there something greater than we ourselves? Does truth, good and beauty exist?
Can spirituality reform the acquisitive spirit? Can it exist without dogma, authority or belief? Is anything sacred anymore?
 
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What was the most sacred experience in your life?
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Do not humiliate anyone
Look for the good in everything
Find out how you agree with others, not on how you differ
Find the transcendent quality in everything
Look at evil with the eyes of a mother
Transcend your personal identity
Look upon others as the expression of the divine

Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality
 
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Society
Poverty, Technology, Morality
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: Society
We flounder in a sea of superficiality. Our passivity binds us to the existing order. We sought happiness, but received vacuity. An insight became a policy. A position was assumed, a relationship was defined. A dream turned into a bureaucracy.
 
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What are the principles of modern society?
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Do not humiliate anyone
Look for the good in everything
Find out how you agree with others, not on how you differ
Find the transcendent quality in everything
Look at evil with the eyes of a mother
Transcend your personal identity
Look upon others as the expression of the divine

Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality
 
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Relationship
Introducing Visionary Friendship
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: Relationship
Why is it we all so desperately want to be loved? Why do we end up alone? Is relationship without betrayal, misunderstanding and forgetfulness possible? Is true friendship possible? Is love in society possible?
 
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What is the closest thing to love you have ever experienced?
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Do not humiliate anyone
Look for the good in everything
Find out how you agree with others, not on how you differ
Find the transcendent quality in everything
Look at evil with the eyes of a mother
Transcend your personal identity
Look upon others as the expression of the divine

Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality
 
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Understanding
Transform a problem before it arises
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: Understanding
Is it possible to find the truth of a perspective or person? What is false in your life? What is real? Why is understanding so rare? Does truth exist?
 
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What problem are you unable to solve?
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Find out how you agree with others, not on how you differ
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Look at evil with the eyes of a mother
Transcend your personal identity
Look upon others as the expression of the divine

Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality
 
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Self
Suffering, Happiness, Death
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THIS MONTH'S QUEST: Self
How can we maintain our integrity in a world where power, success and money are valued about all else?
Who are you? What do you stand for and what kind of person do you wish to become?
 
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What would you give your life for?
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Look for the good in everything
Find out how you agree with others, not on how you differ
Find the transcendent quality in everything
Look at evil with the eyes of a mother
Transcend your personal identity
Look upon others as the expression of the divine

Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality
 
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Thomas a Kempis
"Our sensual desires promise us a promenade, but deliver us only a dragon"

“Our sensual desires promise us a promenade, but deliver us only a dragonnade. A sprightly step in the forenoon turns into a draggled tail in the afternoon. All-nighters of roister-doistery lead only to mornings of huggermuggery; that is to say, of sickness and sadness. Need I speak of it? Every carnal joy begins with a caress, but in the end curls up into a ball and dies. I ask the question again. What can you see outside the monastery walls that you...


Abraham Heschel
"Spirituality is an explosive state of creation"

"The religious mind does not function from a center of authority, whether it is accumulated knowledge as tradition, or it is experience which is really the continuation of tradition, the continuation of conditioning. The religious spirit does not think in terms of time, the immediate results, the immediate reformation within the pattern of society. We said the religious mind is not a ritualistic mind; it does not belong to any church, to any group, to any...


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Abraham Heschel
"Spirituality is the transcendent in our own existence"

“Nothing exists for its own sake, nothing is valid by its own right. What seems to be a purpose is but a station on the road. All is set in the dimension of the holy. All is endowed with bearing on God…This is what we mean by the term ‘spiritual’: It is the reference to the transcendent in our own existence, the direction of the Here toward the Beyond…It is impossible to grasp spirit in itself. Spirit is a direction, the turning of all beings to...


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"All elementary school children are educated about many spiritual views."

They should be aware that differences should be respected.


"There are many truths but we each must choose one"

“My way to resolve the seeming contradiction between each religion’s claim to ‘one truth and one religion’ and the reality of the multiplicity of faiths is thus to understand that in the case of a single individual, there can indeed be only one truth, one religion. However, from the perspective of human society at large, we must accept the concept of ‘many truths, many religions.’” Dalai Lama


"Unfree people can’t accept discipline"

Associating inner control with external tyranny, they would rather suffer than be subject to spiritual authority. Only free men… do not equate self-restraint with self-surrender, knowing that no man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.” Abraham Heschel


"Spiritual awareness comes to those who year passionately for ultimate me"

"Only those who have not tasted the terror of life, only those who claim that it is a pleasure to live and that more and only pleasure is in store for the generations to come, can deny the essential necessity of asking: Wherefore? For whose sake?” Abraham Heschel


"Spiritual enlightenment is inevitable"

Everything we do is part of the web of life. We are wakening through hard-wiring in the brain, into a totally inevitable fulfillment of our consciousness, of what we are inevitable to become.


John Ruskin
"Bring spirituality into your practical life"

“Half an hour after they have insulted God by praying to Him in this deadest of all dead languages, not understanded of the people, they leave the church, themselves pacified in their perennial determination to put no check on their natural covetousness; to act on their own opinions, be they right or wrong; to do whatever they can make money by, be it just or unjust; and to thrust themselves, with the utmost of their soul and strength, to the highest,...


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Feodor Dostoyevsky
"Much on earth is concealed from us"

“Much on earth is concealed from us, but in place of it we have been granted a secret, mysterious sense of our living bond with the other world, with the higher heavenly world, and the roots of our thoughts and feelings are not here but in other worlds. That is why philosophers say it is impossible on earth to conceive the essence of things. God took seeds from other worlds and sowed them on this earth, and raised up his garden; and everything that...


Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Spirituality is the active soul"

Spirit is that which is self-evident“The physicians say, they are not materialists; but they are: – Spirit is matter reduced to an extreme thinness: O so thin! – But the definition of spiritual should be, that which is its own evidence. What notions do they attach to love! what to religion! One would not willingly pronounce these words in their hearing, and give them the occasion to profane them.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Experience, 250Spirituality...


Martin Buber
"The fulfillment of existence…is the place on which one stands."

“There is something that can only be found in one place. It is a great treasure, which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place on which one stands…The environment which I feel to be the natural one, the situation which has been assigned to me as my fate, the things that happen to me day after day, the things that claim me day after day – these contain my essential task and such fulfillment...


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Manas magazine
"Religion should take account, first, of the needs of human beings"

“Men can agree and live together in peace, without coercion, without enforced rules of irrational tradition, and with their common hopes as guide.” ManasReligious inspiration “would recognize as ‘spiritual’ only those free human expressions which are entirely unconnected with any motive but the highest of which man is capable, and it would preserve and promulgate this idea of religion as sacred above all."


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Life Path
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Freedom
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1. Challenge
Be willing to suffer and sacrifice
"If you want to help, share something of yourself – not from your abundance – but until it hurts. Give what costs you—make a sacrifice—do without something you like, so you may share what you have saved thus with those who do not even have what they need. Then your giving will be true giving--loving until it hurts.” Mother Teresa


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Online Product Sales



This project focuses on running an online business that makes shopping easier for customers by handling product sourcing and delivery. Customers place their orders online, and I source the requested items from local shops. For clients who are nearby, I deliver directly, while for those farther away, I arrange for items to be shipped. The aim is to save people time and provide a convenient and reliable service.

To make this happen smoothly, I need financial capital that will allow me to purchase products in advance and on time. This prevents delays and helps maintain customer satisfaction. I also hope to establish a small physical center where clients can find me more easily. This will help build trust, increase visibility, and attract a larger customer base.


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Learn
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When there is love the problem is simple. Otherwise, the problem is complex.
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2. Visionary Society Public Event
Think for yourself (Understand)



Find the heart and soul of any issue. Each person must set their own learning path. Let’s begin again, as a newborn babe.


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Help
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Create
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Put the fair and good into your mind.
See through the illusion of outer beauty. Support culture that lifts and inspires, informs and transforms. Put the fair and good into your mind. Find out what is explosive creativity.


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Culture: Beautiful Books



Is a glorious culture possible? The purpose of Beautiful Books is to promote and celebrate beautiful art. We want to remind each other that culture can lift and inspire, inform and transform. Goodness, beauty and truth exist. Let’s join together to rediscover what this is. 


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Money
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Select a just vocation. Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature.
"This ingenious instrument of material exchange, money, has turned into the only means or the principal means of human communication…Money is the present-day name for the world of the human ego. Money dictates how we deal with everything – material, intellectual, and emotional things." Jacob Needleman
“There is not wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, and joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.” John Ruskin


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Just doing your job is criminal



Money is magic. It’s a lucky charm, a talisman, a nomadic object. What can we do with it? Achieve personal happiness? Or can we go all the way?


3. Establish Your Dream
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Spirit
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1. Challenge
Stake your life on the existence of a transcendent reality.
In what ways are you devoted to a false god?
Another person? A country, religion, race, idea? How do you identify with it? How have you made it sacred, holy? Is it through fear of being inadequate yourself?


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Spiritual Community

Can we construct a practical spirituality for the disaffected modern life?

Are you okay with living your life as it is given to you? Or will you dive into the sea of the real? Go ahead, lift your head above the languid sea. Tell yourself: I am going to live. Greet the day with promise. Smile in the face of mortality.

Join us in Visionary Spiritual Community
Religiosity for the modern age


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Love
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Look for the higher nature in anyone, the grandeur of any living being.
Give an example of illusory love. Have you fallen in love with or been infatuated with someone for reasons that you later realized were false?


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Relationship: Create a new Valentine’s Day

Let's create a new and better Valentine's Day. Fight the idealization of romantic love. Bring together two souls for the elaboration of the good. Defend the possibility of true friendship!

Valentine’s Day, Mother’s and Father’s Day champion a limited form of love. Don't cut yourself short. There is an even better kind of relationship.

Let’s find the core of the existing holidays: nurturing each other, helping each other, learning about each other. Alternative Valentine’s Day raises the possibility of true friendship, provides tools to deepen our relationship.

– Ask for depth in every relationship, at least a little.
– Look upon harm-doers with the eyes of a mother.
– Be faithful to all relationships and never give up on anyone.
– Support anyone who is sensitive to life.
– Learn to see all children as your own.
– Spending more than fifty percent of your time or energy on a personal relationship is a crime against humanity.

New Valentine’s Day presents the Visionary Friendship pledge, which is relationship without idolatry. Friendshape your friendships. Give your heart to humanity!


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Politics
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Look for the good in the other side.
Do not believe what you are told by the government or media.
Do not condemn the other side unthinkingly.
Do not appeal to or blame leaders or authorities.
Reconstruct any hopeless political issue and make it Visionary.


2. Visionary Society Public Event
Turn a political issue into a Quest

Are you fed up with politics, but still want to be involved in the issues of the day? Is government that recognizes heart and soul possible?

Every time a political issue is presented to us we can look for a deeper way, one not based on superiority or coercion. Turn a political issue into a Quest.

Does politics have to be adversarial? Are you worthy of democracy? What would it mean to develop exquisite sensitivity to the human condition of the community?

Do not vote for a second-rate way of life, even if it is the lesser of two evils. We have more power than we realize, if we build up in ourselves, during the course of our life, the courage of heart and soul. Of refusing to close our heart. Of defending ourself against despondency and bitterness. Of the tenderness and fearlessness that is needed to approach our foes. This is voting as it was meant to be.

It doesn’t matter which side is right. It doesn’t even matter if we find a solution. Instead, our goal must be to look courageously, with humility and goodwill. That is already transformative action. Visionary voting means developing our latent and suppressed capacity for perceiving and acting at the deepest possible level. It means engaging people to respond at precisely the level at which deficiency is being generated.

Turn a political issue into a Quest
Every time a political issue is presented to us we can look for a deeper way, one not based on superiority or coercion. Take it as an opportunity to transform the field on which opposing parties meet, so that they no longer meet in opposition. Reconstruct any hopeless political issue and make it Visionary. Select a political issue, and we will work together to turn it into Quest.


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