Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.

It's normal at this point for the fear-anger syndrome to take over and make you want to hammer on that side plate with a chisel, to pound it off with a sledge if necessary. You think about it, and the more you think about it the more you're inclined to take the whole machine to a high bridge and drop it off. It's just outrageous that a tiny little slot of a screw can defeat you so totally.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.