But In Practice Master Plans Fail -

Speaking As A Builder, If You Start Something, You Must Have A Vision Of The Thing Which Arises From Your Instinct About Preserving And Enhancing What Is There.

Drawings Help People To Work Out Intricate Relationships Between Parts.

It Is A Common Experience That Attempts To Solve Just One Piece Of A Problem First, Then Others, And So On, Lead To Endless Involutions. You No Sooner Solve One Aspect Of A Thing, Than Another Point Is Out Of Point. And When You Correct That One, Something Else Goes Wrong. You Go Round And Round In Circles, Unable To Produce A Form That Is Thoroughly Right.

There Is A Myth, Sometimes Widespread, That A Person Need Only Do Inner Work...that A Man Is Entirely Responsible For His Own Problems; And That To Cure Himself, He Need Only Change Himself....the Fact Is, A Person Is So Formed By His Surroundings, That His State Of Harmony Depends Entirely On His Harmony With His Surroundings.

Yet Still, There Are Those Special Secret Moments In Our Lives, When We Smile Unexpectedly-when All Our Forces Are Resolved. A Woman Can Often See These Moments In Us, Better Than A Man, Better Than We Ourselves, Even. When We Know These Moments, When We Smile, When We Are Not On Guard At All-these Are The Moments When Our Most Important Forces Show Themselves; Whatever It Is You Are Doing At Such A Moment, Hold On To It, Repeat It-for That Certain Smile Is The Best Knowledge That We Ever Have Of What Our Hidden Forces Are, And Where They Lie, And How They Can Be Loosed.