"Do you keep this going all the time?"

"People ask me, "Do you keep this going all the time?" and I say "As well as I am able, that's what I aim to do." And they say, "Well how do you know?" and I say "I know when I go wrong. I feel it the minute I go wrong." So if i'm not feeling that I'm going wrong, I know I'm all right. It's not knowing the right, which is changing all the time, but being able to detect when I deviate. Volition always has an element of the habitual and familiar about it. Inhibition is almost the neural equivalent of saying,"I don't know." We're all afraid of not knowing. It's our only security."


Marjory Barlow
An Examined Life