The Practical And The Mystical

“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” -Gustave Flaubert

“The greatest fallacy in, or rather the greatest objection to, teleological thinking is in connection with the emotional content, the belief. People get to believing and even to professing the apparent answers thus arrived at, suffering mental constrictions by emotionally closing their minds to any of the further and possibly opposite “answers” which might otherwise be unearthed by honest effort — answers which, if faced realistically, would give rise to a struggle and to a possible rebirth which might place the whole problem in a new and more significant light…The non-teleological picture… goes beyond blame or cause. And the non-causal or non-blaming viewpoint… arises emergently from the union of two opposing viewpoints, such as those of physical and spiritual teleologies, especially if there is conflict as to causation between the two or within either. The new viewpoint very frequently sheds light over a larger picture, providing a key which may unlock levels not accessible to either of the teleological viewpoints.” -John Steinbeck, Log From The Sea Of Cortez

Be focused and disciplined and practical.

So that you can be open to the wild and mystical and magical.

To do anything sublime, you need both working together. The practical and the mystical. The conscious and the subconscious. The light and the shadow.

Center marks the spot.