This direct perception of pure Dynamic Quality without any intellectual mediation is the same as the goal of Buddhism known as “awakening” or “enlightenment.”

As far as I know, “Quality” is still the best term, but “meaning” is a term I have thought about often. It’s an excellent synonym

By not knowing Quality in its “everything-state,” you will only see a part of reality, you will be trapped in a small life. You are likely to be technically and intellectually competent without an overall understanding. The idea is to go beyond intellect and to expand reason, fully to understand the total quality of everything. When you find it, it

He saw Quality as a potential unifier of two major philosophical systems around the globe. He hoped to use it in the classroom to guide students in their writing. But he came to see that philosophical reasoning is not our only connection to Quality. Values direct our every move, every thought, every impulse, and those of all living things, all the

The best way of investigating Quality that I know of is the brilliant Oriental technique of zazen, which defines Dynamic Quality very precisely by forcing a subtraction of static intellectual patterns for it rather than adding new ones.

Normally one’s ability to see what is good marches far ahead of one’s ability to produce it.

To me “happiness” is a much narrower term than “Quality.” I think of happiness as a biological response to quality in which the quality is external (objective) and the happiness is internal (subjective). Happiness is thus subordinate to a subject-object metaphysical relationship and is limited by it.

There is a Hindu story where the little fish asks his mother fish, “I have been anywhere and everywhere, but I cannot find this thing called water.” Quality is the water that supports us all. It is the source of both subjects and objects, both mind and matter. It is everything.

Dharma, like ṛta, means “what holds together.” It is the basis of all order. It equals righteousness. It is the ethical code. It is the stable condition which gives man perfect satisfaction.