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

To the extent that you perceive Dynamic Quality, you make your own life, and to the extent you cling to static quality, you are the victim of fate.

At the instant quality is observed, observer and observed are not separate. Thought of the sort used in definitions uses symbols of past experience to account for new experience. Quality is the experience before it is symbolized. A discipline of quality is learned when one succeeds in a pure response to one’s instantaneous situation uncluttered by

I think that our traditional Western way is to try to capture life in a net of words. But I think one can realize that the net of words is a part of life. The danger is not in using the words; the danger is in clinging to them, clinging to their meaning, and saying, “Oh, now I have spoken a great truth.”

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

I want to emphasize that when that idea came, there was no preparation for it. It arrived out of my own circumstances, rather than out of a deliberate desire on my part to sit down and write. I wasn’t being separate from what I was doing; this was arising out of what I was doing.

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

The physical order of the universe is also the moral order of the universe. Ṛta is both. This was exactly what the Metaphysics of Quality was claiming. It was not a new idea. It was the oldest idea known to man.