Words I try to live by, part wev: more Mumford
"Integration proceeds by just the opposite route: a deliberate heightening of every organic function; a release of impulses from circumstances that irrationally thwarted them; richer and more complex patterns of activity; an aesthetic heightening of anticipated realizations; a steady lengthening of the future; a faith in cosmic perspectives. Precisely out of this sense of abundance and fulness of life comes the readiness to embrace the divine. Instead of withdrawing from situations it cannot master in order to maintain mere bodily balance, love risks everything, even life itself, for the sake of a more complete engagement with that which lies outside it and beyond it.
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Not a day, then, without nurturing or furthering life; without repairing some deficiency of love in our homes, our villages, our cities; without caring for a child, visiting the sick, tending a garden, or making at least some token payment of good manners on this common debt."

-Lewis Mumford, The Conduct of Life