Fear, like love, can become a call into consciousness; one meets the unconscious, the unknown, the numinous and uncontrollable by keeping in touch with fear, which elevates the blind instinctual panic...
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.
To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.
Într-o societate și o epocă în care ciudații sunt aruncați în adăposturi, aduși la serenitate pe bază de serotonină și recuperați de către grup din individualismul lor prea intens și ambițios, când ce...
It seems, as one becomes older, / That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence, wrote T. S. Eliot. Four Quartets, which meditates on time, age, and memory, goes on to say, We ha...
Așa cum susține școala de psihologie a lui J.J. Gibson de la Universitatea Cornell, lumea oferă cămin și protecție, îngrijire și satisfacție, aventură și joc. Lumea e alcătuită mai puțin din substanti...
Why do we focus so intensely on our problems? What draws us to them? Why are they so attractive? They have the magnet power of love: somehow we desire our problems; we are in love with them much as we...
The willful amnesia afflicting the sciences in general contrasts sharply with the importance given to memory by the humanities. Literature, philosophy, politics, and the visual arts, including photogr...
Recognize the call as a prime fact of human existence; (b) align life with it; (c) find the common sense to realize that accidents, including the heartache and the natural shocks the flesh is heir to,...
What ages is not merely your functions and organs, but the whole of your nature, that particular person you have come to be and already were years ago.