“We all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have "arrived" when in reality we have not yet started.” IfsThinkingKnowsMayUseRealityMoralProgressFailingGenerationsJudgingAchievementStandardsTestsCurrentsVigorousForward Thinking Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.” IfsWantMindWellsMayHas BeensStatesCharacterActionSpiritualAsksEnergyMeditationProgressAwarenessJudgingMastersDevelopmentJudgmentLifetimeGreedCalmSelflessMysticalConditioningCharacter DevelopmentProvocationSpiritual AwarenessSounder Author:Eknath Easwaran
“I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.” PeopleIfsWorldHeartWholeFoundMy OwnExistenceProgressCreationJudgingTheoryJudgmentUnderstoodIntellectI RealizedJustifyRationality Author:Leo Tolstoy
“The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge. We may even judge the degree of perfection to which a science has arrived by the facility with which it may be submitted to calculation.” KindMayProgressJudgingDegreesPerfectionMathematicsCentreDomainFacilityCalculationsPhysical Science Author:Adolphe Quetelet
“Judge men less by the labels they wear than by their persistent labour for sure if slow progress.” IfsMenProgressJudgingLabelsLabourPersistentJudge MeSlow Progress Author:John Burns
“We've seen some good progress, some good forward momentum. We have about Republican senators who have now indicated that they'll meet with Judge Merric Garland.” ProgressJudgingRepublicanSenatorsMomentumJudge MeGarlandsForward Momentum Author:Denis McDonough