Doubt Is The Brother Of Shame.

If There Is Any Responsibility In The Cycle Of Life It Must Be That One Generation Owes To The Next That Strength By Which It Can Come To Face Ultimate Concerns In Its Own Way.

Do Not Mistake A Child For His Symptom.

If Life Is To Be Sustained, Hope Must Remain.

The Sense Of Identity Provides The Ability To Experience One's Self As Something That Has Continuity And Sameness, And To Act Accordingly.

These Same Experiences Make Of The Sequence Of Life Cycles A Generational Cycle, Irrevocably Binding Each Generation To Those That Gave It Life And To Those For Whose Life It Is Responsible. Thus, Reconciling Lifelong Generativity And Stagnation Involves The Elder In A Review Of His Or Her Own Years Of Active Responsibility For Nurturing The Next Generations, And Also In An Integration Of Earlier-life Experiences Of Caring And Of Self-concern In Relation To Previous Generations.