Anytime You’re Gonna Grow, You’re Gonna Lose

It Is Impossible To See The Angel Unless You First Have A Notion Of It.

We Have To Give Value To Authority. We Have To Give Value To Office, Being In Office, Holding Office.

You May Not Become A Celebrity. You May Even Experience Lots Of Illness Or Divorce, Or Unhappiness. But I Think There Is Still A Thread Of Individual Character That Determines How You Live Through Those Things.

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.

Yes, There's Genetics. Yes, There Are Chromosomes. Yes, There's Biology. Yes, There Are Environment, Sociology, Parenting, Economics, Class, And All Of That. But There Is Something Else, As Well.