Sublime

Storming a breach, conducting an embassy, ruling a nation are glittering deeds. Rebuking, laughing, buying, selling, loving, hating and living together gently and justly with your household – and with yourself – not getting slack nor being false to yourself, is something more remarkable, more rare and more difficult. Whatever people may say, such s

• Definition : The practice of acknowledging the presence of others while deliberately avoiding sustained attention or intrusion.


• Example : Making brief eye contact with someone walking past yo

Yes, I would say that it was innate in me. There’s a Chinese phrase which goes: if you look after yourself, you look after the family, you are loyal to the emperor, the country will succeed. So, the first thing to do is to look after yourself and be a gentleman. That’s a basic requirement. Every individual should try to aspire to be a gentleman.

kindness, modesty, and sincerity.”

It accounts also for the return of the virtue of politeness, for that also is a nameless thing ignored by logical codes.

This book is a guide for a specific kind of newly evolving man. This man is unabashedly masculine—he is purposeful, confident, and directed, living his chosen way of life with deep integrity and humor—and he is sensitive, spontaneous, and spiritually alive, with a heart-commitment to discovering and living his deepest truth.

Fight fair Be a friend Be kind Be careful