Goals Too Clearly Defined Can Become Blinkers.

I Had Repeatedly Accepted Inappropriate Burdens, Stepping In To Do What Needed To Be Done. In Retrospect, I Think I Carried Them Well, But The Cost Was That I Was Chronically Overloaded, Weary, And Short Of Time For Politicking, Smoothing Ruffled Feathers, And Simply Resting.

A Glad Welcome To This Affirmation By A Group Of Psychologists That The Self Does Not Stop At The Skin Nor Even With The Circle Of Human Relationships But Is Interwoven With The Lives Of Trees And Animals And Soil; That Caring For The Deepest Needs Of Persons And Caring For Our Threatened Planet Are Not In Conflict.

Goals Too Clearly Defined Can Become Blinkers.

We Do Not Need To Understand Other People And Their Customs Fully To Interact With Them And Learn In The Process; It Is Making The Effort To Interact Without Knowing All The Rules, Improvising Certain Situations, Which Allows Us To Grow.

Every Loss Recapitulates Earlier Losses, But Every Affirmation Of Identity Echoes Earlier Moments Of Clarity.