166 definitions
to Act (n.) is literally to manifest preference about one set of possibilities, contrasted with an infinite set of alternatives. If we wish to live, we must act. Acting, we value.
Advice (n.) is what you get when the person you are talking to wants to revel in the superiority of his or her own intelligence.
Advice (n.) is what you get when the person you’re talking with about something horrible and complicated wishes you would just shut up and go away.
Aggression (n.) is what underlies the drive to be outstanding, to be unstoppable, to compete, to win—to be actively virtuous, at least along one dimension.
Aim (n.) is a necessary — We cannot navigate, without something to aim at and, while we are in this world, we must always navigate.
An Aim (n.) defines progress and makes such progress exciting.
An Aim (n.) provides a destination, a point of contrast against the present, and a framework, within which all things can be evaluated.
An Aim (n.) reduces anxiety, because if you have no aim everything can mean anything or nothing, and neither of those two options makes for a tranquil spirit.
Anxiety (n.) is more potent than hope.
Atheism (n.) is non-existent — there are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don’t know, what God they serve.
Being (n.) is a place of action, not a place of things.
Being (n.) is process, not a state; a journey, not a destination; the continual transformation of what you know, through encounter with what you don’t know, rather than the desperate clinging to the certainty that is eternally insufficient in any case.
Being (n.) is something more akin to story or drama; lived, subjective experience, as it manifests itself moment to moment in the consciousness of every living person.
The Boy (n.) is material-oriented — boys' interests tilt towards things; girls’ interests tilt towards people.
The Boy (n.) is more given to suffering in the modern world, as boys are dispositionally less agreeable (and thus less compassion and conflict averse).
Consciousness (n.) is what gives everything a perspective. It gives it a size, it gives it a duration, and it gives it colors, and all the qualities that we associate with being, and without that consciousness, all that is at least incomprehensible.
God (n.) is a transcendent reality that's only observable across the longest of timeframes.