The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between specializations has become so great that anyone who seeks to wander freely between them almost has to forego closeness with the people around him.
We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do.