Al-Ghazali

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• RTReverence for Tradition

  9 / 10
• MRMystical Receptivity

  9 / 10
• UIUniversalist Impulse

  9 / 10
• CECommunal Embeddedness

  8 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• ZhiyiTHRESHOLD

  Tiantai founder — three truths held in mutual containment.

• BuddhaghosaTHRESHOLD

  Visuddhimagga — the path of purification; Theravada commentary master.

• LevinasKEEL

  The face of the Other interrupts you. Ethics is first philosophy, before being.

• DignagaTHRESHOLD

  Pramanasamuccaya — the founder of Buddhist epistemology.

• MahaviraTHRESHOLD

  Ahimsa above all. Many-sided reality (anekantavada). Liberation through asceticism.

• Julian of NorwichTHRESHOLD

  All shall be well. Sin is necessary, but love prevails. God as Mother.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Al-Ghazali's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• View from above →

  Mentally zoom out — your city, your country, the planet — and look back at your day.

• Memento mori →

  A short, deliberate confrontation with mortality. Clarifying.

• The Examen →

  Five-step Ignatian end-of-day review — what was given, what was missed, what to take into tomorrow.