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[NOTE: I will be adding text to this page soon. This is only an introduction.]

My decision to break the entire set of human activities into three spheres, based on the three major human desires, is admittedly somewhat arbitrary, or perhaps somewhat too simple.

Cutting any complex system into just a few parts may cause some of its details to be lost. However, if the cut is done well, insight and understanding result.

Let's review what we have:

I have defined the Sphere of Joy to cover the personal aspects of our activities. It is true that this sphere involves one's relationships with others in terms of how one person treats another. However, the emphasis here is on whether a person chooses to better himself or to corrupt himself, to move toward or away from his own Spark of the Divine. That makes this sphere deeply, profoundly personal in its nature.

Placing the primary aspects of the personal in the Sphere of Joy leaves out all the activities related to choices and actions that have primarily interpersonal impacts. We could keep this in a single sphere. However, this would not highlight and allow us to understand certain critical items needed for a properly functioning society.

The way to cut this interpersonal collection is to divide it into formal and informal spheres.

This is why I have separated the formal activities of interpersonal relationships into their own sphere, the Sphere of Peace. Here we have the determination of what is or is not harm, and what to do about it, which requires the exercise of either power or law.

This leaves all the rest of human activities, the not-intrapersonal and not-formal-interpersonal, in the Sphere of Love, where individuals can pursue their own happiness and contribute to the happiness of others.