Life is not a checklist. It is a process.
To enjoy the journey is to pursue flourishing, not perfection. To live with truth is to refine your understanding continually, testing your beliefs against reality. Truth disciplines ego.
To live with honor is to cultivate virtue — acting from integrity even when unseen. Character shapes outcomes long before consequences appear.
“Causing no harm” is shorthand. Harm is unavoidable in embodied existence. The real task is to cause less harm when possible, to weigh consequences honestly, and to justify destruction carefully. Preservation is preferred, but tradeoffs require judgment.
In that sense, the journey is not passive. It is reflective progress — striving, within reality’s constraints, toward better alignment.