The general
who advances without
coveting fame, who retreats without
being ashamed, whose concern is to keep the
people safe and honor the sovereign —
she will be the treasure
of the nation.
from The Art of War, Chapter X
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Be quiet
in your mind,
quiet in your senses,
and also quiet in your body.
Then, when all these are quiet,
don’t do anything. In that
state truth will reveal
itself to you.
What lies
outside my mind
is of no concern to it.
If you could learn this lesson,
you’d be standing straight.
You can come back
to life.
Anything could happen,
and whether we act or not has everything
to do with it. Though there is no lottery ticket for the lazy
and the detached, for the engaged there is a tremendous gamble
for the highest stakes right now. I say this to you not because I haven’t
noticed that this country has strayed close to destroying itself and everything
it once stood for, in pursuit of empire in the world and the eradication of democracy
at home, that our civilization is close to destroying the very nature on which we
depend—the oceans, the atmosphere, the uncounted species of plant and
insect and bird. I say it because I have noticed: wars will break out,
the planet will heat up, species will die out, but how many,
how hot, and what survives depends on whether
we act. The future is dark, with a
darkness as much of
the womb as the
grave.
Rebecca Solnit
There are
many partial religions,
and then there is the Integral Way.
Partial religions are desperate, clever, human
inventions; the Integral Way is a deep expression of the pure,
whole, universal mind. Partial religions rely on the hypnotic manipulation
of undeveloped minds; the Integral Way is founded on the free
transmission of the plain, natural, immutable truth.
It is a total reality, not an
occult practice.
The Integral Way
eschews conceptual fanaticism,
extravagant living, fancy food, violent music.
They spoil the serenity of one’s mind and obstruct one’s
spiritual development. Renouncing what is fashionable and embracing
what is plain, honest, and virtuous, the Integral Way returns you
to the subtle essence of life. Adopt its practices and you
will become like they are: honest,
simple, true, virtuous,
whole.
You see,
in partial pursuits,
one’s transformation is always
partial as well. But in integral self-cultivation,
it is possible to achieve a complete metamorphosis,
to transcend your emotional and biological
limitations and evolve to
a higher state of
being.
By staying
out of the shadows and
following this simple path, you become
extraordinary, unfathomable, a being of profound
cosmic subtlety. You outlive time and space
by realizing the subtle truth
of the universe.
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