● How important is this work?
Answer: Our well-being is and will remain inseparably connected to how well we understand, do, be and teach one another what is truly virtuous. So, inasmuch as you are working to build a more enlightened and virtuous character within you, then you are building and can continue to build a better you, a better family, a better organization and a better nation. The same is true for everyone else who wants to be a blessing instead of a burden to themselves and to others.
● Are you asking too much of me to really study and work at this?
Answer: If you are already spending a lot of focus, effort, time or money to honestly fulfill your passion to get and share what's truly best in life, then NO. We know of nothing that can better empower you to get and share what's truly best in life than the daily study and practice of becoming more enlightened, more virtuous and more integrated-at-heart.
● Where did you get your dictionary definitions?
Answer: See the section entitled "Definition Sources" in Chapter Nine in any of the books in our print trilogy, or in our "eDictionary" app.
● Are you saying each of the dictionary definitions in your books is a statement of what I must think, believe or value as part of your agenda?
Answer: This is a big NO! Read and think about the section entitled "A Word of Caution" in Chapter Five in any of the books in our print trilogy, or in our "eDictionary" app. Then see how well you can improve your own agenda.
● Does your approach really work?
Answer: This is a big YES! Consistently practice pure and virtuous principles in your mind and heart. Unceasingly let thoughts of truth, virtue and wisdom prevail in your mind and in your heart. Keep your mind and heart clean and pure. Stack and keep stacking one upon another virtuous agendas, choices, decisions, deeds, desires, intentions, thoughts, words and actions throughout each day. Do these things and you will personally experience greater true enlightenment, virtue, integrity, liberty, hope, peace and joy within you, your family and society over time. You will also experience less darkness, vice, corruption, bondage, despair, turmoil and misery within you, your family and society over time.
● How can I prove for myself your approach works?
Answer: Test it. Prove it or disprove it. The best laboratories for discovering and improving who you are lie within your own mind and heart, and nowhere else. That will not change. We hope you will test and prove our print trilogy and our "eDictionary" for yourself. We have prepared them to help you actually do that. Spend enough time each day studying and pondering our works. Consistently, earnestly and honestly apply the good, better and best things you learn. Then see for yourself what happens.
● How can I know a definition of a human characteristic is true?
Answer: Experiment for yourself and you will know for yourself! You can test and know for yourself the true meaning and value of any and every human characteristic in our language by using the tools found in the textbook, workbook and reference sections of the books in our print trilogy, or in our "eDictionary" app. Pay close attention to Chapter Five and to Chapter Ten.
● Why do you use allegories in your work?
Answer: An allegory can be a symbolic story of words or actions that can help you personally discover truth and virtue for what they are, if you work at it. In other words, allegories, apologues, fables and parables are all stories that ask their audience whether certain abstract, analogous, comparative, figurative, implicative, suggestive or symbolic words or actions represent truth, and its real consequences. Such stories invite each reader, listener or observer to discern for themselves the true meaning and value of what is portrayed, presented or proposed. That is exactly what we invite you to do.
