A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.
Peace is a virgin who dare not show her face without Strength, her father, for protection.
Decades spent in contact with science and its vehicles have directed my mind and senses to areas beyond their reach. I now see scientific accomplishments as a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery.
I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.
I grow aware of various forms of man and of myself. I am form and I am formless, I am life and I am matter, mortal and immortal. I am one and many – myself and humanity in flux.
I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: “What is I?” Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?
Individuals are custodians of the life stream – temporal manifestations of far greater being, forming from and returning to their essence like so many dreams.
It may be interesting to note how many statesmen there are who believe that the cost of living can be reduced by making the people of other countries help to feed and clothe us.
No right of preference exists in favor of person, property, or business. Personal claims and ambitions must yield in favor of whatever best serves the general welfare.
Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint.
The remedy for our social evils does not consist so much in changing the system of government as it does in increasing the general intelligence of the people so that they may learn how to govern.
We are all consumers and should all be producers.
We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man’s potentialities appear to be unbounded.
We can have peace and security only so long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood, only so long as we guard ourselves against attack by foreign armies and dilution by foreign races.
And if at times you renounce experience and mind’s heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.
I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.
Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn’t become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.