When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

You go up the mountaintop and all you're gonna get is a great big heavy stone tablet handed to you with a bunch of rules on it.

That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface.

Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.

Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding. An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality, in mechanical work as in other endeavors.