Live with care — for yourself, for others, for what holds you.
Twelve traditions, in their own words.
A map of twelve wisdom traditions: where they converge, where they disagree, and what each preserves in its own words.
All twelve traditions hold that every person has inviolable worth. They give at least five irreconcilable reasons why.
See the reasons179 principles · 29 shared themes · 13 real disagreements
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Traditions
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29 themes · 13 differences
Map
The Golden Rule is the strongest agreement here — all twelve affirm it; five scriptures, almost the same sentence.
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17 concerns · 41 jewels
Compass
Seventeen concerns the traditions keep arriving at.
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Each quote is verbatim from the edition the corpus audits — follow the citation to its tradition.
Twelve Traditions