My values are transcendence, service and care.

Let me explain! Although some are a bit self-evident.

Service - increasingly I feel like a moment of consciousness, surrounded by other such moments, with some underlying sense that it’s good to help - I’m not exactly sure what or how, but currently the ‘helping’ feeling feels oriented towards simple human things

Care - I think grace feels related to this? To care for others in a graceful way - to show deep care through gentle attention, complete acceptance, quiet moments. Maybe another way to say this would be to hold someone in sacred attention while directing energy toward the connection?

Transcendence - this is…not what is normally implied by transcendence. I love that word so much now, but it feels so overloaded with meaning - I absolutely don’t mean some sort of self-overcoming toward robotic transhumanism (no offense meant, I’m still processing how I think about those concepts) that’s driven by…whatever need for power or whatever. Instead, I think the heart of transcendence to me is this delight in self-overcoming (I know, it sounds similar) - specifically, towards moments of epiphany. I think epiphanies are so fascinating - little fast ways in which we become new, beings who can see that which we could not previously. Transcendence to me feels like...internalizing understanding (not quite what I mean) in order to become something new. The opening sequence of Paprika and the 2D -> 3D move in the book Flatland feel related here?

Transcendence sure feels like it has a direction to me, but it’s entirely intuitive, and I could talk your ear off about curiosity being some kind of core value because then we figure out the question we’re trying to ask but…honestly when it comes to what it means to me as a value it’s just kind of a feeling of directional faith that I follow that I’ve had since I was a kid. But then, isn’t science special? I wish I knew the answers.