• The meaning of pain.
• The opposite of satisfaction.
[Note: In the Buddhist worldview, ignorance is the root cause of suffering and, conversely, enlightenment incorporates its cessation.]
See also: Meaning, Misery, Pain, Satisfaction

• Outcome-based success: An experience in which one gets what one set out to get or accomplishes the desired outcome one set out to accomplish.
• Process-based success: An experience that supports one’s optimal movement in an aspired direction.
See also: Aspiration, Balance, Expectation, Failure

A chosen, active engagement with a reality one has accepted but seeks to change (when neither peace, surrender, nor truce is a fitting option).
[Note: Mindful struggle requires four conditions: an identifiable objective, available means to address it, a defined endpoint, and a justified cost/benefit ratio assessment. The rejection of force is non-negotiable and established in advance — mindful struggle is non-violent a priori.]
See also: Acceptance, Conflict, Force, Insistence, Peace, Surrender, Truce

The persistent application of energy over time to bring about an eventual change in difficult but tolerable circumstances.
See also: Force, Inner Discipline, Tolerance

• The fundamental link in the chain of neuropsychological events that constitute conscious awareness.
• A mental event composed of three elements: sensory data representing Reality, an affective component (the feelings the data engenders), and a cognitive component (language and reasoning-dependent) that provides meaning to the first two elements.
[Note: The duration that a given state of mind lasts is the subjective sense of the Present.]
See also: Affective, Cognitive, Feelings, Meaning, Present

• The conviction that there is more to Reality than can be measured or detected by human senses or any instrument, present or future.
• The conviction that “more goes on than meets the eye.”
See also: Faith, Meaning

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

A type of intent characterized by the preferential investment of attention in the needs of others over the needs of the Self.
[Note: Intent exists on a spectrum composed of the following areas: selfish, self-centered, fair and equal, kind and generous, and selflessness at the upper end.]
See also: Compassion, Intent, Love

A type of intent in which attention is actively invested in the needs of the Self with deliberate dismissal of the relative importance of the needs of others.
[Note: Selfishness occupies the lowest position on the intent spectrum — below self-centeredness.]
See also: Intent, Self-Centeredness, Selflessness

A relationship with the Self based on the recognition of its value.
See also: Respect, Self-Esteem, Value