Sublime

The Quality which creates the world emerges as a relationship between man and his experience. He is a participant in the creation of all things. The measure of all things—it fits.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. —Heraclitus

if a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory.

The sociologist George Herbert Meade called this “the interiorized other.” That is to say, we have a kind of interior picture, a vague sense of who we are, and of what the reaction of other people to us says about who we are. That reaction is almost invariably communicated to us through what other people say and think, but soon we learn to maintain

Bob Dylan has said that he who is not busy being born is busy dying. If he’s right, being born doesn’t happen at just one moment—you might even continue to do it somehow, poetically at least.

A friend who is curious about the way the mind works for happiness or unhappiness spent an afternoon with a Hindu teacher. During their conversation, he asked the teacher, somewhat rhetorically, “Don’t you know for sure at least that you are a human being?” The teacher replied, “In part.” This was not the response my friend expected. His train of t

Aretê implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency—or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency which exists not in one department of life but in life itself.

That way of doing things is the right way, and the way that produces things of real value, where there’s no separateness between the doer and the done.