CPI 05
Reference Founding Notebook No. 05

THE PRINCIPLE OF ALIGNMENT

The spirit that guides OSE

"I ask them to push themselves to their limits, and they listen to me because they see, they feel that I push myself to my limits, to the end of my quest."

Core idea

Alignment consists of remaining faithful to what our deep current recognizes as true and just, so that our choices, our actions, and their consequences contribute to our own growth and to that of Humanity.

? Key question

"Does it faithfully express what is most essential in me or in us?"

Sailboat on the ocean illustrating the OSE principle of alignment, from the path of Man to Humanity

Man, this ocean

Spray

Words, decisions, actions, and visible consequences

Waves

Thoughts, emotions, intentions, and projects

Deep current

What gives meaning to one's existence, one's quest, one's vocation

Alignment

Coherence

Connecting what I think, what I say, and what I do.

Alignment

Connecting my life to what is most essential in me.

Faithfulness

A direction more than a state.

"Alignment is not a state. It is a direction. It is a path."