I do detest all offices - all, at least, that are held on a political tenure.
You're experiencing a bit of the world around you when you experience it's color.
Perceiving how things are is a mode of exploring how things appear. How they appear is, however, an aspect of how they are. To explore appearance is thus to explore the environment, the world. To discover how things are, from how they appear, is to discover an order or pattern in their appearance. The process of perceiving, of finding out how things are, is a process of meeting the world; it is an activity of skillful exploration.
Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.
The world is a resource for us and we have access to the world because of the kind of bodies and skills that we have so that there's a sense in which the individual person doesn't have the burden of having to memorize everything he or she needs to know. The world helps us.
Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.
I do think that at least when we're thinking about ourselves as living, conscious, human beings we are dynamic wholes.
I just like the blues better than rock 'n' roll
While we are focusing on fear, worry or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
Individual ambition is undoubtedly a strong motive in student work, but there is such a thing among students everywhere as ambition for others, call it class spirit, esprit de corps, good fellowship, or good will to men.
Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.