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How Can We Know Ourselves By Ourselves? . . . Soul Needs Intimate Connection, Not Only To Individuate, But Simply To Live. For This We Need Relationships Of The Profoundest Kind Through Which We Can Realize Ourselves, Where Self-revelation Is Possible, Where Interest In And Love For Soul Is Paramount.

Everything That Everyone Is Afraid Of Has Already Happened: The Fragility Of Capitalism, Which We Don't Want To Admit; The Loss Of The Empire Of The United States; And American Exceptionalism. In Fact, American Exceptionalism Is That We Are Exceptionally Backward In About Fifteen Different Categories, From Education To Infrastructure.

You Know, People Come To Therapy Really For A Blessing. Not So Much To Fix What's Broken, But To Get What's Broken Blessed.

I've Found That Contemporary Psychology Enrages Me With Its Simplistic Ideas Of Human Life, And Also Its Emptiness.

I Like To Imagine A Person's Psyche To Be Like A Boardinghouse Full Of Characters. The Ones Who Show Up Regularly And Who Habitually Follow The House Rules May Not Have Met Other Long-term Residents Who Stay Behind Closed Doors, Or Who Only Appear At Night. An Adequate Theory Of Character Must Make Room For Character Actors, For The Stuntmen And Animal Handlers, For All The Figures Who Play Bit Parts And Produce Unexpected Acts. They Often Make The Show Fateful, Or Tragic, Or Farcically Absurd.