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Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
-William James
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Knowledge About Life Is One Thing; Effective

William James
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
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You are life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that life-you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. you find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. you are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. the whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. you are life.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. the cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. that is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.
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Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate one may think there is a gate to go through and look a long time for it without finding it one may find it and it may not open if it opens one may be through it as one goes through it one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it no one went through a gate there was no gate to go through no one ever found a gate no one ever realized there was never a gate
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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. of the thing. and of the original thing with is like the thing. which is the barbarism of the privileged class.
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The knowledge we now consider knowledge proves itself in action. what we now mean by knowledge is information effective in action, information focused on results. results are outside the person, in society and economy, or in the advancement of knowledge itself. to accomplish anything this knowledge has to be highly specialized.
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This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the majority of workers who will make their livings through traditional ways, either by manual work... or by service work. the productivity of knowledge work - still abysmally low - will predictably become the economic challenge of the knowledge society. on it will depend the ability of the knowledge society to give decent incomes, and with them dignity and status, to non knowledge people.
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