Sublime

The first mindset, Approach A, the confidence that Hashem will do for a person what he or she needs, is the mindset a person should have before the fact, in other words, as long as the outcome is yet to be determined.

If Darwin had never abstracted from his concrete observations of sparrows, he would never have found an abstract, a general principle of evolution across different species, and he would never have been able to see how evolution works in other species as well. Abstraction is also not for theoretical-academic processes of insight only. We need to abs

In the solitary confines of his cell, Qutb had a revelation. “Preaching alone is not enough,” he wrote in his revolutionary manifesto, Milestones, published in 1964, the year of his release. “Those who have usurped the authority of Allah and [who] are oppressing Allah’s creatures are not going to give up their power merely through preaching.” Qutb

Yuiken leader Tosaka’s charting of three political currents in mid-1930s Japan: liberalism, Marxism, and Japanism (Nihon shugi), which Tosaka defined as the Japanese version of fascism.

Munya Mardor, founder of Rafael (the Armament Development Authority) wrote in his diary on May 28, 1967, “When I came to the assembly hall, I found [name deleted] inspecting a group of technicians who were active in assembling a secret weapon that they had designed and produced before the outbreak of the war. Members of the team were aware of the v

Among the philosophical sources, perhaps most influential was the work of the educator and social innovator Rudolf Steiner, whose synthesis of science, consciousness, and social innovation continues to inspire my work and whose methodological grounding in Goethe’s phenomenological view of science has left the most significant imprint on Theory U.