The Range Of What We Think And

Here We Have The Paradox, The Potentially Tragic Paradox, That Our Relatedness To Others Is An Essential Aspect Of Our Being, As Is Our Separateness, But Any Particular Person Is Not A Necessary Part Of Our Being.

From The Moment Of Birth, When The Stone-age Baby Confronts The Twentieth-century Mother, The Baby Is Subjected To These Forces Of Violence Called Love, As Its Father And Mother And Their Parents And Their Parents Before Them, Have Been. These Forces Are Mainly Concerned With Destroying Most Of Its Potential.

Conventions Are Convenient. It Is Inconvenient To Say People Are Dead When They Are Alive, Or Alive When They Have Been Buried, Or That The World Is Crumbling When It Is, As Everyone Can See, There As Usual. If All A That Does Not Fit B Is Ipso Facto Disqualified, We Have To Tailor A To Shape And Size To Avoid Serious Trouble, And Not All Are Equally Gifted In This Art.

To Live In The Past Or In The Future May Be Less Satisfying Than To Live In The Present, But It Can Never Be As Disillusioning.

Children Do Not Give Up Their Innate Imagination, Curiosity, Dreaminess Easily. You Have To Love Them To Get Them To Do That.