Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
Seeing, feeling, thinking, believing - these are the stages of how we change our style on the outside and our self-image on the inside.
'Exculpatory' is in the eye of the beholder.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.
Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.
The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life.
And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.