Structure becomes rigidity, discipline becomes narrowness, order becomes a straitjacket, and too much patterning kills spontaneity. On another level, an individual's conformity to the consensus of any particular time in history comes to limit, define, and ultimately to strangle that person's creative potential. And this creative potential is the only hope for the future progress of culture. Every time we do what is untrue to our nature, acting not from a real necessity but rather to fulfill what others may expect of us, we commit a crime against ourselves that is peculiarly Saturnine. We move a bit more toward death, more of our potential becomes actual, and what is actual does not express what we are.
Robert Hand
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| PRONUNCIATION: | kûrk |
| NOUN: | 1. Scots A church. 2. Kirk Chiefly British The Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Used with the. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old Norse kirkja, from Old English cirice, church. See church.
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