The Easy Path Of Aging

Love Alone Is Not Enough. Without Imagination, Love Stales Into Sentiment, Duty, Boredom. Relationships Fail Not Because We Have Stopped Loving But Because We First Stopped Imagining.

The Character Truest To Itself Becomes Eccentric Rather Than Immovably Centered, As Emerson Defined The Noble Character Of The Hero. At The Edge, The Certainty Of Borders Gives Way. We Are More Subject To Invasions, Less Able To Mobilize Defenses, Less Sure Of Who We Really Are, Even As We May Be Perceived By Others As A Person Of Character. The Dislocation Of Self From Center To Indefinite Edge Merges Us More With The World, So That We Can Feel Blest By Everything.

How Can Hitler, Or Some Other Murderer, Appear In This World? I Don't Think Any Single Theory Can Account For The Phenomenon, And I Think It's A Mistake To Try To Reduce It To Being Brutalized By Your Parents Or Having Grown Up In Some Horrible Situation - Like Charles Manson.

I'm Cautious About A Lot Of Words

Our Lives Are Determined Less By Our Childhood Than By The Traumatic Way We Have Learned To Remember Our Childhoods.