To be arrested in some trauma
or neurosis of the present:
to be encased, enclosed, cloaked in,
to carry a veil over oneself,
to allow one’s will
to be subdued, restrained, immobilized, imprisoned,
is to waste time
and one’s life
and to be buried
before one has died.
With excessive commercialism man limits and constrains
himself to a few things for which he labors endlessly.
By giving an unending array of commercial products an
inordinate value, he places himself at their altar and subordinates
his whole being to their use and care.
In the face of his avid inventiveness and industriousness, he
inherits more problems than he does happiness.
Knowledge in and for itself has little value.
Fuel without a spark ignites no fire.
Knowledge without action and vital intention
changes nothing. The most valuable wisdom
or knowledge is that which at some point is put
into action.
Wisdom then becomes incarnate.
Far Beyond Words 