A Brilliant Oversimplification

I’m currently following Steve Pavlina’s Blog — a truly incredible site where Steve dives into all sorts of personal issues.

He’s currently covering spirituality and how to live questions — questions that I don’t really have any problems with, but I am just thoroughly amazed to find someone else in the world who thinks so similarly to me.

Anyway, he casually mentioned this video game he used to play and how it has an interesting value system. Well, it’s not just interesting, it’s brilliant. Look at the simplicity:

Truth = Honesty Love = Compassion Courage = Valor Truth + Love = Justice Truth + Courage = Honor Love + Courage = Sacrifice Truth + Love + Courage = Spirituality The absence of Truth, Love, and Courage is Pride, the opposite of which is Humility.

Beautiful. Not perfect, of course, but brilliant nonetheless.