Ways to Live Questionnaire

Active participation in community life to preserve the best of culture. Avoid excess, seek moderation, clarity, balance, and discipline. Avoid vulgarity, impatience, and easy intimacy with many.

Self-sufficiency, privacy, and meditation. Avoid dependence on others or external things, focusing instead on self-direction and inner refinement.

Sympathetic concern and affection for others. Avoid greed, power, and excessive intellectuality, focusing on receptivity and helpfulness.

Sensuous enjoyment of life with relish and abandonment. Balance solitude and sociality, avoiding entanglements and self-sacrifice.

Merge with a social group for cooperative, energetic activity and companionship to realize common goals, living outwardly with gusto.

Constant activity, adventure, and realistic problem-solving. Rely on scientific and technical advances to control the environment and progress.

Dynamic integration of enjoyment, action, and contemplation. Cultivate flexibility, admit diversity, and accept the resulting tensions.

Enjoyment of simple, easily obtainable pleasures (comfort, food, friends, relaxation) rather than driving ambition or asceticism.

Quiet receptivity, letting good things come unsought. Sit alone, open to nature, and wait for wisdom from without.

Vigilant, rational self-control and independence. Hold firm to high ideals, control impulses, and maintain dignity in the face of limits.

Contemplative life turned inward. Cultivate the inner world of ideals, feelings, and self-knowledge, avoiding aggressive action.

Active use of physical energy in daring, adventuresome deeds. Find zest in overcoming obstacles and exercising power in the present.

Humble, faithful devotion to cosmic purposes. Let oneself be used as a quiet instrument of the dependable powers of the universe.