240 likes | 445 Views
Discover Your Value-Orientation. © Paul T.P. Wong, PhD, CPsych. Lesson 1: Discover the authentic self. “To thyself be true.”. Asking the big questions. If you don’t know what really matters, you will mess up your life. Human flourishing depends on having the right value-orientation.
E N D
Discover Your Value-Orientation © Paul T.P. Wong, PhD, CPsych
If you don’t know what really matters, you will mess up your life
Human flourishing depends on having the right value-orientation
Pleasure orientation • Success orientation • Meaning orientation Different value-orientations
King Solomon’s “Ecclesiastes” “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher.”(1:1) “Fear God and keep his commandment, for this is the whole duty of man.” (12: 13” Surrender your life to God
Actions are based on the basic value orientation of meaning & virtue • What matters most is to do what is right/good according to the higher purpose of serving others & God • Self is embedded in the relational world of family, friends, community, humanity and the Creator Characteristics of meaning-orientation
To deny one’s human dignity and quest for meaning is to die on the inside