David Lapin

“The moment or hour of leave-taking is one of the pleasantest times in human experience, for it has in it a warm sadness without loss.”
― John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“For the paradoxes are becoming so great that leaders of people must be less and less intelligent to stand their own leadership.”
― John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

“If a thing is to have a market value, it must be detachable or alienable so that it can be put on the scale and compared. I mean this in a particular sense: we who do the valuation must be able to stand apart from the thing we are pricing. We have to be able to conceive of separating ourselves from it. I may be fond of my wristwatch but I can put a value on it because I can imagine parting with it. But my heart has no market value (at least not to me!), for to detach it is inconceivable. (I address below the interesting question of value in relation to body organs used for transplant.) We feel it inappropriate, even rude, to be asked to evaluate in certain situations.”
― Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

“FOR THE BIG DECISIONS IN LIFE, YOU NEED TO REACH A DEEPER REGION OF CONSCIOUSNESS. MAKING DECISIONS THEN BECOMES NOT SO MUCH ABOUT ‘DECIDING’ AS ABOUT LETTING AN INNER WISDOM EMERGE.
– Brian Arthur”
― Joseph Jaworski, Source: The Inner Path of Knowledge Creation