Courtesy is an inward grace, which extends outwards to others.
Equilibrium is not static.
Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the
moment.
Our understanding changes what is that we understand.
Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of
experiencing.
The science is in knowing, the art is in perceiving.
The future is what the present can bear.
The way we describe our world shows how we think of our
world.
How we think of our world directs how we interpret our world.
How we interpret our world governs how we participate in it.
How we participate in the world shapes the world.
There are few things as convincing as death to remind us
of the quality with which we live our life.
The advent of lawyers into business affairs is the death
of flexibility; and has increased the adversarial approach
to negotiation.
When a legal system fails to provide justice, people will
seek their own remedies outside the process of law. This is
inevitable, necessary and dangerous. Better then that those
within the legal system see that their responsibility towards
the living body politic, and address that responsibility.
The quality of our perceptions determines the quality of
our judgment. Our judgment determines how we interact with
the world. How we interact with the world changes the world.
Therefore, the quality of our perceptions changes the world
we perceive.
If I name myself, I recognize who I am. By recognizing who
I am, I am becoming myself.
In our actions we reveal the world in which we live. We speak
of what we see, and understand, and know. That is, everything
we do is reflective of who and what we are. A musician presents
a view from the world in which they live. This provides an
opportunity for an audience to look into this world. Similarly
a reviewer reviews himself or herself.
Reviewer reviews himself or herself by presenting the extent
of their understanding.
When a record company makes a mistake, the artist pays for
it. When the artist makes a mistake, the artist pays for it.
The artist has one career.
The manager has as many careers as they have artists.
The record company has as many careers as it has artists.
An honest society is an ordered society.
An ordered society is an efficient society.
An efficient society is a richer society.
A richer society may invest in itself and support a poorer society.
Any action carries repercussions. Active and creative interaction
and involvement with anything carries active and creative repercussions.
Things are not as they were before. They have changed. Therefore,
if we approach a living, creative,intelligent "object" a second
time and expect it to be the same, we will not see or understand
it - it is not the same. So, to see it"again", we will have
to see it not only "as if for the first time" but in actuality
for the first time, because it has not been like this before.
So, we can never reach a Final Understanding of anything because
it will change as we develop understanding. If we did reach
a Final Understanding, simultaneously the "subject" would have
changed, rendering our FU as past tense, and no longer final!
Complex fields of intelligence, to enter our world, that is
to become more fully real by becoming more fully part of the
totality of worlds, need people to anchor the points between
which the field of intelligence can dwell and operate. Not so
much in people, as between them. In a sense, a group is giving
birth to an angel by providing its "spirit" or "intelligence"
a framework to inhabit.
Robert
Fripp Unplugged is now available on CD!
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