The Real Cycle You're Working On Is

Any Person Of Any Philosophic Persuasion Who Sits On A Hot Stove Will Verify Without Any Intellectual Argument Whatsoever That He Is In An Undeniably Low-quality Situation: That The Value Of His Predicament Is Negative. This Low Quality Is Not Just A Vague, Woolly-headed, Crypto-religious, Metaphysical Abstraction. It Is An Experience. It Is Not A Judgment About An Experience. It Is Not A Description Of Experience. The Value Itself Is An Experience. As Such It Is Completely Predictable. It Is Verifiable By Anyone Who Cares To Do So.

There Is A Perennial Classical Question That Asks Which Part Of The Motorcycle, Which Grain Of Sand In Which Pile, Is The Buddha. Obviously To Ask That Question Is To Look In The Wrong Direction, For The Buddha Is Everywhere. But Just As Obviously To Ask The Question Is To Look In The Right Direction, For The Buddha Is Everwhere.

I Argued That Physical Discomfort Is Important Only When The Mood Is Wrong. Then You Fasten On To Whatever Thing Is Uncomfortable And Call That The Cause. But If The Mood Is Right, Then Physical Discomfort Doesn't Mean Much.

Even Though Quality Cannot Be Defined, You Know What Quality Is.

Programs Of A Political Nature Are Important End Products Of Social Quality That Can Be Effective Only If The Underlying Structure Of Social Values Is Right. The Social Values Are Right Only If The Individual Values Are Right. The Place To Improve The World Is First In One's Heart And Head And Hands, And Then Work Outward From There.