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self-cultivation

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Noun1.self-cultivation - the process of educating yourself
education - the gradual process of acquiring knowledge; "education is a preparation for life"; "a girl's education was less important than a boy's"


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Influenced by the will-centered doctrine of the 1547 Council of Trent, de Sales popularized the inner self-cultivation that was a prominent feature of Stoic practice while including women.
Also covered are such practices as self-mortification, exorcism, spirit-writing, healing, counseling, changing fate, and self-cultivation.
The merging of self-cultivation and social-political reform: Confucius believed that political order must be established on social order, and social order must come from individual cultivation.
 
 
 
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