Author: Dr. Eduardo A. Morató, Jr.

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Self Mastery is the most elusive of all human quests. A lifetime is never sufficient for most people. Learning to be the best that you can ever become demands the full faculties of the brain, the heart, and the spirit. This search for the ultimate self begins with learning to think, using both the rational, analytical, and critical mind and the associative, creative, systemic, and integrative mind. It then conjures that other way of knowing without knowing why you know. This is learning to intuit. Separate, but equally powerful, is the emotional mind, the one that feels and empathizes. Learning to feel brings the self to its sensitive, sensual, and stimulating dimension. Next, learning to do puts into action everything that one thinks, intuits, and feels. This is followed by the need to transmit and receive messages, both trivial and important, in learning to communicate. Raising the level of the self to assume greater responsibility and accept personal accountability for others is learning to lead. Finally, there is full self-actualization and total human development in learning to be. At this height of personal excellence, the five pillars of being and becoming conspire to transform the self towards transcendence. These elevating pillars are wonderment, a wider world view, wisdom, walking the way of the spirit, and the will to live.