When? This could be a good question, having seen the sign, and having made note of the message? What if yesterday was not our best day and what if the days before weren't? Is best "all inclusive"? Is "it" the some total of the parts? Or does it instead reflect the experience you have had, and in a way make it impossible for your best to have every been yesterday? .................Doing ones best is by necessity something that can only happen today. ...............Interesting to think that if one was to embrace this directive that it may be at odds with the goal to "be perfect". Being ones best may, and probably always does, fall short a little of being perfect. If it draws from weaker yesterdays then the fact will be that tomorrow could then in fact be better drawing from today. Then again it is "today that we have seen the sign" on the side of the road. Today is always the only day we have to deal with.
T.S. Eliot quotes seem to be about "doing ones best"...............................
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
You are the "music" while the music lasts
People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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