Living an Integral Life

La Grace Center is dedicated to transformational learning and cultivation of consciousness through the integral development of the individual.

An Integral Life refines and enhances the mental faculties of the mind through tools such as concentration, power of observation, analytical organization, decision-making skills, discrimination, imagination and mental receptivity and plasticity.

An Integral Life inspires the heart towards multi-faceted creative expressions in such fields as art, music, poetry and film, bringing a heightened appreciation of beauty and a deeper sense of joy, compassion and brother- and sisterhood.

An Integral Life trains and develops the body to support the mind, heart and spirit. It emphasizes healthy daily habits, discipline, agility, strength and flexibility, team building and collaboration.

An Integral Life is a life-long journey of self-discovery leading to worldly and inner progress and the opening to universal values – values we refer to as Living Principles: Sincerity, Humility, Gratitude, Perseverance, Aspiration, Receptivity, Progress, Courage, Goodness, Generosity, Equality, and Peace.

12 Living Principles (click on a living principle)

Courage, Viryam
The ability to give up the known in the pursuit of the unknown; to take risks; to be true to one’s highest. Courage is not the absence of fear but a graceful overcoming of all fear.

Progress, Pragati
The reason why we are on earth: to live, learn and grow in consciousness. Progress is the attitude of continuously growing in the life and consciousness towards the highest and the best.

Receptivity, Samjnana

It is with widening of the consciousness and the one pointedness of the aspiration that the receptivity increases.

Aspiration, Abhipsa

It (aspiration) is that inner flame, that aspiration, that need for the light. It is a kind of luminous enthusiasm that seizes you.

Perseverance, Dhriti

Perseverance is patience in action . . . the resolve to go to the very end.

Gratitude, Kritagyata

Gratitude opens all the closed doors and allows the saving Grace to enter.

Humility, Namas

True humility lies in not judging oneself and in letting the Divine determine our real worth.

Sincerity, Satyam

Allow nothing, nowhere, to deny the truth of your being: that is sincerity.

Peace, Shanti
Peace is an active state of being where one can no longer be disturbed by life’s changing situations and circumstances and one is living always in the harmony of mind and heart.

Equality, Samata
Equality means to be equal in all circumstances, to keep a perfect mastery of oneself and remain peaceful in the presence of whatever happens.

Generosity, Audarya
It is to give selflessly, without bargaining or expectation. It is to give for the joy of giving. It is an opportunity that Life gives us for the liberation from ego and self-indulgence, an opportunity to participate in a greater joy and fulfillment.

Goodness, Svasti
One should not be good with an interested motive. One should not be good so that others may be good to you It is always the same lesson: One must do as well as one can, the best one can, but without expecting a result. One must be good for the love of goodness.