• Outcome-based failure: An experience in which one must accept not getting an expected, desired outcome.
• Process-based failure: An experience that undermines one’s capacity to optimally move in an aspired direction.
See also: Aspiration, Expectation, Success

An imagined future (desired or undesired) considered certain to materialize.
See also: Aspiration, Disappointment

The right to receive a reward.
[Note: It can be concrete and functional when based on a stated contract, or imagined and problematic when based on the notion that the Self deserves a reward simply for being or showing up.]

The degree of one’s awareness of Reality.
[Note: The process of gaining enlightenment is the process of learning. Full enlightenment means possessing complete awareness of all that there is to be aware of — an imaginable but unattainable state (perhaps with rare exceptions, e.g., the Buddha, the enlightened one). On the backdrop of ignorance as the root cause of suffering, complete enlightenment is therefore synonymous with the cessation of suffering.]
See also: Happiness, Ignorance, Suffering

An inherent trait reflecting one’s capacity to experience a pain before reacting becomes unavoidable.
See also: Tolerance

The normal response to being exposed for an inadequacy one is not responsible for.
[Note: Distinguished from shame, which involves culpability.]
See also: Guilt, Ignorance, Innocence, Regret, Shame

A relation between a consciousness and something (or someone) defined by attributing negative value to it.
See also: Respect, Value

The beginning of pain.
See also: Inner Conflict, Pain

The capacity to follow a rule over time.
[Note: When the rule originates internally, the discipline is inner discipline. When the rule originates externally, one is being disciplined.]
See also: Commitment, Inner Discipline, Rule

The mental pain caused by an unfulfilled expectation.
See also: Expectation, Pain