ADVANCED Philosophy of the Human Person

“I am my own integrated EXPERIENCE of perceiving, conceiving, feeling,

deciding and acting in the light of what is BEAUTIFUL, what is GOOD and what
is TRUE—to which I am constantly attracted and tending, by which and in which I
find myself completely immersed—in the “actualizing process of becoming”
BEAUTIFUL and GOOD in the abode of TRUTH—in the domicile of the absolute
Truth, the very Ground of Being.”
—Schola Mariae
“Kinalalagyan
“Kakapusan sasaPagpapalagay”
Pagpapalagay”

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