His great charm was attentiveness. Experience had not yet taken away that freshness of the spirit which is the charm of the body. I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when I looked at it the right way, did not become still more complicated. I know that you believe you understand what you think I said. However, I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Most of the concepts we use in thinking involve words. Word is a symbol that we agree will represent a concept or an idea. However, we must agree on the same meaning for a given word. Words, like eyeglasses, blur everything that they do not make more clear. Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibiting. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hang man.

The machine society, especially through it exploding mass civilization, has confused people’s sense of reality and personal identity. There is a confused blur between mass media, news, drama, and live experience. Existence has increasingly become a spectator sport. Tragedy may be your choice, but it will certainly appear that comedy chooses you. However, what were the glories of the Sun, if we knew not the gloom of darkness?

Much more does affliction demand our love when it proceeds from compassion for another’s woes. To take a thorn out of one’s friend’s foot, to put it into one’s own. Praise when closed with an exception, has been found the most successful means of blasting the credit of the most deserving. Let your actions praise you. A charm must be accompanied by a strong wish on the part of the charmer that it may succeed.

I find him charming. He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over educated. Really beautiful things cannot go out. We are all equal in beauty, there would be no beauty, for beauty is only by comparison. There is no way of joining the past with the present, and there is no difference between what is a moment past and what is eternally past.