Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Three, p. 58
“Reading is not walking on the words; it's grasping the soul of them.”
Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Water Book
“Radical simply means «grasping things at the root». ”
“Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.”
Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 1: Predicament, Ch. 3: The Challenge of the Mandarins (p. 19)
“The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.”
Source: "Quotes", The Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982), Chapter Three, p. 61
“It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it.”
Anna Wulf, in "Free Women: 1"<!-- p. 59 -->
The Golden Notebook (1962)
Context: The novel has become a function of the fragmented society, the fragmented consciousness. Human beings are so divided, are becoming more and more divided, and more subdivided in themselves, reflecting the world, that they reach out desperately, not knowing they do it, for information about other groups inside their own country, let alone about groups in other countries. It is a blind grasping out for their own wholeness, and the novel-report is a means toward it.
Source: Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead (2019), p. 42
