Re: Existence and the Existential

Greasy wrote:

> The lives of most people are like the grass – only the trees catch the 
> storm, and they experience a great deal, but the grass experiences 
> practically nothing.
> 
> Greg G. wrote:
> 
>> It is one thing to introduce a new doctrine into the world, it is
>> something else to live it.
>> 
> 
> 

It is one thing to let ideas strive with ideas, to battle and be
victorious 
in a dispute; it is something else entirely to be victorious over your own

mind in the battle of life. For however close one battling idea comes to 
another in life, however close one combatant comes to the other in an 
argument, all this strife is still at a distance and like shadow-boxing. 
The measure of a person’s fundamental disposition is determined by how far

is what he understands from what he does, how great is the distance
between 
his understanding and his action.