Nothing Up Your Sleeve

Photographer Unknown, (Nothing Up You Sleeve)

“Decency is the absence of strategy. It is of utmost importance to realize that the warrior’s approach should be simple-minded sometimes, very simple and straightforward. That makes it very beautiful: you having nothing up your sleeve; therefore a sense of genuineness comes through. That is decency.”

-Chögyam Trungpace

C. S. Lewis: “Simply Tell the Truth”

Photographer Unknown, (The Deer Tattoo)

“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.”

-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity