Sublime

classic understanding should not be overlaid with romantic prettiness; classic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level.

she was seeking confidence and stability in her own sense of taste.

LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF NON-DOING

That is what caring really is, a feeling of identification with what one’s doing. When one has this feeling then he also sees the inverse side of caring, Quality itself.

This little book by the German philosopher Josef Pieper is simply a gem. No book its size will teach us so many true things about everything we need to know to understand what and why we are or about how to live a life worth living. This book is one of the first I recommend for waking us up to what life is all about, to what is essential to and glo

There is a difference between singing under some eucalyptus trees at a river crossing in the Northern Territory, and being on the stage at the Sydney Opera House, but we can’t say that the difference is always in favor of the Sydney Opera House. What makes a human life real and beautiful is available in every place.

The tenderness and vitality of the colors, the mixture of rectilinear human design and powerful, proliferate natural contours, the variety and harmony of the elements, gave an impression of complex wholeness such as he had never seen, except, perhaps, foreshadowed on a small scale in certain serene and thoughtful human faces.

Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom

There exists a quality which is nameless. It may be gravity, but the word does not satisfy me, for the quality I have in mind can be accompanied by the most cheerful gaiety. It is the quality of the carpenter face to face with his block of wood. He handles it, he takes its measure. Far from treating it frivolously, he summons all his professional v