Dignity is the ontological awareness an individual has of his supra-individual reality. (GTUFS: SPHF, The Spiritual Virtues)
Dignity is opposed to vulgarity, or frivolity, or curiosity, as contemplation is opposed to agitation, or as ‘being’ transcends ‘doing’. It is the ‘motionless mover’ which is incarnate in movement, the ‘being’ which shows through ‘acting’, the contemplation which is affirmed in action; it is the integration of the periphery in the centre, and it is also the revelation of the centre in the periphery. (GTUFS: SPHF, The Spiritual Virtues)
To act in the place of God, as does the officiating priest, is to act with DIGNITY, to act Divinely; it is to be central in the periphery, or immutable in movement.
Dignity is a way of remembering corporeally the Divine presence. (GTUFS: SPHF, The Spiritual Virtues)
Dignity (affected): It individualizes the theomorphism of Adam, which is contradictory, for it is not the individual who resembles God, but man as such, the human form which includes all individuals.
Dignity is a repose, not an activity like affectation. It is not an individual affirmation but, on the contrary, a retreat towards the impersonal centre. (GTUFS: SPHF, The Spiritual Virtues)
True DIGNITY could not be affected, it is sincere by definition. (GTUFS: PlayMasks, On Intention)
Dignity / Effacement: Dignity is consciousness of a universal quality. Effacement is consciousness of our own nothingness. (GTUFS: SPHF, The Spiritual Virtues)