Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.
Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten? He had an intuitive feeling, growing rapidly, that what he had stumbled on was no small gimmick. It went far beyond. How...
When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.
This condemnation of technology is ingratitude, that's what it is. Blind alley, though. If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved any...
Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found not only in Zen literature but in the tales of every major religion. This allegory of a physical mount...
May, will you please, kindly DIG it, he remembered one of them saying, and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar questions? If you got to ask what IS it all the time, you'll never get time to KN...
To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Newton invented a new form of reason. He expanded reason to handle infinitesimal changes and I think what is needed now is a similar expansion of reason to handle technological ugliness. The trouble i...
I don’t know why—it’s just that—I don’t know—they’re not kin.—Surprising word, I think to myself never used it before. Not of kin—sounds like hillbilly talk—not of a kind—same root—kindness, too—they...
Dad?What? A small bird rises from a tree in front of us.What should I be when I grow up?The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. Honest, I finally say.
But the ones who go posing as moralists are the worst. Cost-free morals. Full of great ways for others to improve without any expense to themselves. There's an ego thing in there, too. They use the mo...
Or winters when the sloughs were frozen over and dead and i could walk across the ice and snow between the dead cattails and see nothing but grey skies and dead things and cold
His early failure had released him from any felt obligation to think along institutional lines and his thoughts were already independent to a degree few people are familiar with. He felt that institut...
One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
Stuckness. That’s what I want to talk about today. Back
DeWeese asks, 'Does this tie in with what you were doing on Quality?''It's the direct result of it,' I say.I remember something and look at DeWeese. 'Didn't you advise me to drop it?''I said no one ha...
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.
Do what is reasonable even when it isn’t any good.