The Perfect Life Philosophy The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. -- Henri Fredrick Amiel This quote points out one problem with life. It is chaotic and never perfect. The harder we work at making perfect philosophy the less it applies to daily life. We never see everything clearly, although at times we convince ourselves otherwise. Another problem is that we take all this too seriously. We work had at trying to make life fit our perfect models and end up missing the point. If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live. -- Lin Yutang For me the above quote is saying we worry too much about the purpose of life. We try to organize and define life and end up living within our definitions. A better approach might be to view life as a "process" where we learn and adjust. This view accepts imperfections, can be adapted to individual life, and grows as we grow. We can borrow ideas and tools from many places. We join organizations for awhile and it they restrict our growth we move on. Change and new ideas are problems for organizations as they mature, but we can stay with the education process and remain unencumbered. This is the perfect philosophy. We drag culture and organizations with us. ---------- Jeff Owens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Zone 7, http://www.teleport.com/~kowens Underground house, solar energy, reduced consumption, no TV
