I'm a terrible Scrabble player.
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.
The creative individual is particularly gifted in seeing the gap between what is and what could be.
Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.
An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct," the answer can only be, "All of them. ".
Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own
Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don't react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.
Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.