Healthy Personal Growth is Creative Personal Growth

Healthy personal growth is creative personal growth. It is about exactly what it says, growth. It is not about becoming more good or a 'better' person, it is about gaining more autonomy, becoming more authentic, more genuinely who we are.

Healthy Personal Growth leads to inner richness, the ability to have empathy, but it varies from the simple idea of "being good". A genuine person has no need to be malicious towards another – they would only harm themselves. But it is still not the same as'being good'.
Most religions seem to have some adjunct against the mistake of going after "being good". Christians say, 'The path to hell is laid with good intentions' and Buddhists say, 'It takes all the wisdom of the wise to undo the harm done by the merely good. View the rest of this article