The Science and Art of Living
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- Written by Joseph J. McMahon Joseph J. McMahon
“…the art of life is the most distinguished and the rarest of all the arts.”
C.G. Jung from Modern Man in Search of a Soul
The dilemma
The common sense belief that the intuitive awareness of our ideals such as, truth, love, knowledge, and justice motivates us in our everyday lives inspired the development of the Vision Circles Program. On the flip side we also know that we have biological and security needs crying out, “Take care of yourself first. It’s a dog eat dog world out there”. Given the rational tendency to satisfy our own self-interests in a rapidly advancing scientific culture and given our more-than-rational tendency to create ourselves and the world in the light of our ideals, how do we carry off this psychological high-wire act?