A Personal Aristocracy is a manual for living a virtuous and elegant life based on classical Renaissance and New Consciousness principles. According to the author, True Blue Indigo, the greatest challenges we face in our lives lie not outside ourselves, but inside. Our doubts, insecurities, desire for acceptance, lack of imagination, and the powerful social pressure to conform remain barriers between who we are and what we may attain. To pursue a personal aristocracy is a conscious decision to break out of self-imposed strictures and give full expression to the voice of our spirit.

The book contains short chapters on virtues such as dignity, honor, reverence, truth, and forbearance and show you how to integrate them into daily life. For example, the chapter on Dignity bluntly explains,

“Dignity is the price we set for our lives in the marketplace of humanity. In this place of exchange we are either price-setters or price-takers. We either get our asking price or cheapen ourselves by selling below our own value. Only we can determine our price; only we can decide if we are valuable, rare, and costly things, or if we are cheap, common, and of little worth to ourselves…If all we ever do is assess our value on the most obvious level of life, of how much we can earn in dollars…or of how much others can utilize our skills or knowledge in the creation of material wealth, then the greater part of us is left unexamined, and if this is all there is to us, then we deserve whatever price is paid to rent our lives cheaply. But, if there is more to us, if there are treasures inside that cannot be bought, or if the price we ask is stunning to others in the dignity we exhibit, then our true worth begins to be more accurately measured.”

A Personal Aristocracy is unique because it asks us to consider just how important it is for us to honor and live by the values and virtues that we hold so close to our heart without being preachy or condescending. For more information on the book, please click here.

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