If we focus mostly on how we might have been partly or wholly to blame for what might have been less than a perfect, problem- free... childhood, our guilt will overwhelm their pain. It becomes a story about us, not them. . . . When we listen, accept, and acknowledge, we feel regret instead, which is simply guilt without neurosis.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices tha...t will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If American has points of inferiority to English, they are merely matters of degree; if the Americans are, as Oliver Wendell Holme...s said in 1858, "the Romans of the modern world--the great assimilating people," the English are only to an exceedingly limited degree its Greeks. They are tarred too much with the same brush of pragmatism, democracy, industrialism, and materialism for deep cleavage. Even America is not wholly democratic culturally; there are remarkable enclaves of aristocratic culture in the cosmopolitan and tradition-bound society of the Eastern seaboard, whose members look east toward Europe far more than they look west towards the heartland of Americanism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly succ...essful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Still doth the soul, from its lone fastness high, Upon our life a ruling effluence send.... And when it fails, fight as we will, we die; And while it lasts, we cannot wholly end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But there are no fractions, the world is an integer Like us, and like us it can neither stand wholly apart nor disappear. .../>When one is young it seems like a very strange and safe place, But now that I have changed it feels merely odd, cold And full of interest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of d...estruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at r...est, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a ru...dimentary grasp of religion, sex, and money. Without a basic knowledge of these three primary facts in a normal human being's life--subjects which stir the emotions, create events and opportunities, and if they do not wholly decide must greatly influence an individual's personality--no human being's education can have a safe foundation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; rea...son can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »