In order to experience Quality, you can’t be thinking about the past or the future or what other people may think of you or your work. Rather, you must be completely involved in whatever it is you are doing. Totally there. Fully present. Many other great thinkers have taken note of this phenomenon. George Leonard writes that the space between an actor who is dedicated to his act and his act itself is the space in which God lives.22 Erich Fromm refers to it as a special kind of joy, “what we experience in the process of growing nearer [to] becoming one’s [authentic] self.”23 When the late
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