Andrew Eason

The path of duty lies in what is near, and men seek for it in what is remote; the work of duty lies in what is easy, and men seek for it in what is difficult.

Mencius

"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything"-

Dwight D. Eisenhower.

[note that this neatly hinges the tension between the strategic and tactical modes of engagement]

• Just because something is fun for someone else doesn’t mean it’s fun for me. • It’s enormously helpful, and surprisingly difficult, to grasp the obvious. • You need new friends and old friends. • The quickest way to progress from A to B is not to work the hardest. • It’s easier to prevent pain than to squelch it (literally and figuratively). • Wh

“Let go or be dragged.” — Zen Proverb

Seneca indicates that the Eleusinian Mysteries continually helped the ancient Greeks to grow spiritually.

"There are holy things that are not communicated all at once: Eleusis always keeps something back to show those who come again.
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(Quaestiones Naturalis VII, 30:6)

Adam Smith explained: We conceive … a sort of gratitude for those inanimated objects, which have been the causes of great, or frequent pleasure to us. The sailor, who, as soon as he got ashore, should mend his fire with the plank upon which he had just escaped from a shipwreck, would seem to be guilty of an unnatural action. We should expect that h

"The value of myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by 'the veil of familiarity'" in this, fantasy did precisely the opposite of what its critics alleged -- it did not represent a flight from the real world but a return to it, an unveiling of it" [Hannah Long in the Weekly Stan

“I am out with lanterns, looking for myself,” wrote Emily Dickinson.

Virginia Woolf noted in her diary, “My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way.”