The sensation that automatically follows the conviction that one has made the right choice and acted righteously.
[Note: The intensity of dignity is inversely proportional to the amount of deliberation required — full dignity is experienced when one does the right thing deliberately without deliberation. To an observer, dignity appears as grace.]
See also: Grace, Choice

The state of mind that forms in reaction to entrapment (i.e., the loss of freedom) compounded by the loss of hope of breaking free.
See also: Hope, Freedom

An attraction toward something for the purpose of satisfying the Self, typically by possessing it.
See also: Passion

A plan intended to raise the value of something by improving the organization of its parts.
[Note: A design does not necessitate a designer; organization can emerge spontaneously, as an expression of the laws of nature or in response to pressures, as in evolutionary design.]
See also: Creativity, Organization

A succinct statement of the essential meaning of something.

The human capacity to generate a design that raises the organization of something to a higher functional or aesthetic level.
See also: Beauty, Design, Organization

The gradual decay of the intensity of the emotional response to recalled data, leading to and resolving with a psychological adjustment.
[Note: Coping resolves with adjustment, which is achieved when the emotional intensity decreases to a level that no longer causes cognitive distortion.]
See also: Adjustment

A belief held with little enough doubt to permit the simulation of certainty.
[Note: The simulation of certainty supports choice making despite the ever-present residual doubt.]
See also: Fanaticism, Faith, Trust

• Complete deliberate influence over something (imaginable but unattainable).
• An imaginable but unattainable relationship between two entities (e.g., two individuals, a consciousness and a process) in which one entity has the ability to shape every variable that defines the other according to its preferences.
See also: Influence

The state of mind generated automatically when the brain is under the impression that its present pursuits are going well.