The Fundamental Steps Of Expansion That Will

We Must Be Willing To Change Chairs If We Want To Grow. There Is No Permanent Compatibility Between A Chair And A Person. And There Is No One Right Chair. What Is Right At One Stage May Be Restricting At Another Or Too Soft. During The Passage From One Stage To Another, We Will Be Between Two Chairs. Wobbling No Doubt, But Developing.

Children May Need Challenges And High-risk Conditions In Order To Develop The Self-generated Immunity To Trauma That Characterizes Survivors. To Be Tested Is Good. The Challenged Life May Be The Best Therapist.

Sex And Older Women Used To Be Considered An Oxymoron, Rarely Mentioned In The Same Breath.

The Present Never Ages. Each Moment Is Like A Snowflake, Unique, Unspoiled, Unrepeatable, And Can Be Appreciated In Its Surprisingness.

Growth Demands A Temporary Surrender Of Security. It May Mean A Giving Up Of Familiar But Limiting Patterns, Safe But Unrewarding Work, Values No Longer Believed In, Relationships That Have Lost Their Meaning. As Dostoevsky Put It, "taking A New Step, Uttering A New Word, Is What People Fear Most." The Real Fear Should Be Of The Opposite Course.