23.03.2010
The Beginning of Virtue: Seeing What Is
“The understanding of what you are, whatever it be―ugly or beautiful, wicked or mischievous―the understanding of what you are, without distortion, is the beginning of virtue. Virtue is essential, for it gives freedom. It is only in virtue that you can discover, that you can live―not in the cultivation of a virtue, which merely brings about respectability, […]