The one thing, people can sense when you care. All spirit is individual; no general being exists. Like Sunbeams, the human soul pervades and enlighten surrounding matter. The spirit is also Universal, for its activity is the realization of values (which cannot be particular). Moreover, each entity is internally related to other entities, for spirit is concretely Universal, existing only as individuals whose fullest potentialities are realizable only in communion (Russian, sobornost) with and dependence upon others, especially God. This is the highest realization of a spirit’s essence personality, the primary meaning of which is unification of purposeful self-determination and creative activity throughout changing experiences. The human soul is finite and not in the least under its own command. God is the only complete personality, and the relationship of humans to God is not the objective aim of worship but the subjective one of identity of purpose in every creative act. It is through personality that the totality of existence is unified, not as a completed organic or hierarchical whole but as a meaningful unity in process of realization in and through the many individual centers of activity.  #RyanPhillippe 1 of 7

Whenever spirit takes the special form of human existence, it constitutes an ego (a person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance). The wishes that are realized in dreams are invariably the wishes of the ego; it is only a deceptive appearance if interest in another person is believed to have evoked a dream. For instance, a boy, not yet four years of age related the following dream: He saw a large garnished dish, on which was a large joint of roast meat; and the joint was suddenly—not carved—but eaten up. He did not see the person who ate it. Even the large, over-abundant, immoderate and exaggerated things occurring in dreams may be a childish characteristic. A child wants nothing more intensely than to grow big, and to eat as much of everything as grown-ups do; a child is hard to satisfy; he knows no such words as “enough,” and insatiably demands the repetition of whatever has pleased him or tasted good to him. He learns to practise moderation, to be modest and resigned, only through training. As we know, the neurotic also is inclined to immoderation and excess.  #RyanPhillippe 2 of 7

Who can he be, this strange person, of whose luxurious repast the little dreams? In accordance with the form of relation between spirit and personality, not all egos are actually persons. Only when the ego freely acts to realize its own concrete essence, rather than abstract or arbitrary goals, it is a person. For some days past the boy, in accordance with the doctor’s orders, had been naughty, and, as punishment, has been deprived of his supper. He had already undergone one such hunger-cure, and had borne his deprivation bravely. He knew that he would get nothing, but he did not even allude to the fact that he was hungry. Training was beginning to produce its effect; this is demonstrated even by the dream, which reveals the beginnings of dream-distortion. There is no doubt that he himself is the person whose desires are directed toward this abundant meal, and a meal of medium rare (well) roast meat at that. However, since he knows that this is forbidden him, he does not dare, as hungry children do in dreams, to sit down to the meal himself. The person remains anonymous. Therefore, a society that furthers the goal of the development of egos into persons is a true community, and the relationship existing among its members is communality (sobornost).  #RyanPhillippe 3 of 7

How can the soul progress save through the cultivation of virtue and self-mastery? It is a community of purpose that constitutes society; without that, people may be drawn into contiguity, but they still continue virtually isolated. Communality is opposed by the process of individualization and socialization. Socialization is the tendency of an ego to assume the characteristics of objectified, abstract society, thereby sacrificing its true nature for the false role of a theatrical ego. Individualization is the tendency of the ego to become solitary, to lead a hermetic existence. However, since the deepest solitude stems from the awareness of existing in a World of socialized abstractions, these two processes are more complementary than opposed. The fateful element in both tendencies is their implicit preference for the objective; they are type of objectification. The goal of personalist socialism is soborny (communal) society; and sobornost finds its expression, not in economic forces, but in love, for only love transforms the Ego into a personality. A charm must be accompanied by a strong wish on the part of the charmer that it may succeed.  #RyanPhillippe 4 of 7

The weakness of humanity is never willingly perceived by young minds. The realization of communality has many facets. Three of the most important can be highlighted by taking, in succession, the perspectives of government, ethics, and history.  Every personality ought to be situated in a condition of human existence corresponding to its human dignity. Implementation of this principle would produce an aristocracy of freedom, and would avoid the leveling tendency of democracy as well as communism’s antipersonal myth of a classless society. The state would cease to have any intrinsic value and would be reduced to the purely instrumental level of a tool employed for the implementation of various humanitarian goals. Humans are free not to only act morally or immorally, but also to decide for themselves what is moral or immoral. However, this is the type of leadership we have seen under President Obama, and although he has made some tremendous accomplishments, 90 percent of Americans have health care, America is involved in less wars, we have not had an foreign attacks on our country, unemployment is down to 5 percent, and there has been tremendous job growth.  #RyanPhillippe 5 of 7

Nonetheless, certain segments of the population have been able to break the law and habitually get away with it.  The American press has been able to lie, spread rumors, physically attack people, violate privacy laws, bribe judges, and impersonate law enforcement. It is almost a form of anarchism we are seeing from the press and corporations like Uber who refuse to obey government regulations and take their unpermitted “self-driving” cars off the road. Whatever happened to being a good corporate citizen? We have also seen a huge increase in murders of police officers and property crimes. It must be remembered that humans are concretely involved with others, so this radical freedom is not at all a license to dominate. No truly human act can use a person as a means to achieve something else; the ethics of freedom and creativity mist also be the ethics of compassion. Leaders cannot abuse and torture people because of what they are supposed to represent and go unpunished. The moral ideal is complete, harmonious being, manifesting beauty in the form of creative energy guiding and unifying the entire World in the project of value realization.  #RyanPhillippe 6 of 7

If such a goal seems overly optimistic, the historical perspective tends to promote a realistic balance. The very structure of our existence forbids the realization of any utopia, not only because some actions fail to achieve their intended results, but also because some goods are mutually exclusive. Moreover, since the goal is the fullest development of spirit, and since spirit has unlimited freedom, the end of history can only be a limiting ideal to guide future action rather than an actual event in future history. Therefore, history is tragic in that it proposes a goal that is never completely attained. However, a tragedy is always meaningful; and history possesses significance to the extent that those spirits whose lives constitute history achieve their divine purpose. Consequently, even if history involves failure and suffering, its failure is a profound catastrophe and its suffering is justified to the degree that historical beings actualize that nonhistorical community of personal values that is equivalent to the Kingdom of God.  #RyanPhillippe 7 of 7