The Yogi and the Commissar - Arthur Koestler

"The real issue remains between the Yogi and the Commissar, between the fundamental conceptions of Change from Without and Change from Within. It is easy to say that all that is wanted is a synthesis - the synthesis between saint and revolutionary; but so far this has never been achieved." Arthur Koestler

"The Commissar's emotional energies are fixed on the relation between individual and society, the Yogi's on the relation between the individual and the universe." Arthur Koestler

"He who clings blindly to the past will be left behind; but he who abandons himself too readily will be carried away like a dry leaf; all one can do is to travel even more consciously and even less willingly." Arthur Koestler

"Life is not a void to be filled. It is a plenitude to be discovered." Christoph Eberhard

[henryjarnigan]

Still come back to this video, great passage