I Am Not Caused By My History-my

I Just Read About John Le Carre, The Great Spy Novelist. He Had An Absolutely Miserable Childhood. His Mother Deserted Him When He Was Young. His Father Was A Playboy And A Drunk. He Was Shifted Around To Many Different Homes. He Knew He Was A Writer When He Was About Nine, But He Was Dyslexic. So Here Was A Person With An Absolutely Messed-up Childhood And A Symptom That Prevented Him From Doing What He Wanted To Do Most. Yet That Very Symptom Was Part Of The Calling. It Forced Him To Go Deeper.

Just Stop For A Minute And You'll Realize You're Happy Just Being. I Think It's The Pursuit That Screws Up Happiness. If We Drop The Pursuit, It's Right Here.

We Approach People The Same Way We Approach Our Cars. We Take The Poor Kid To A Doctor And Ask, "what's Wrong With Him, How Much Will It Cost, And When Can I Pick Him Up?"

We're An Air Bag Society That Wants Guarantees On Everything That We Buy. We Want To Be Able To Take Everything Back And Get Another One. We Want A 401-k Plan And Social Security.

My War - And I Have Yet To Win A Decisive Battle - Is With The Modes Of Thought That And Conditioned Feelings That Prevail In Psychology And Therefore Also In The Way We Think And Feel About Our Being. Of These Conditions None Are More Tyrannical Than The Convictions That Clamp The Mind And Heart Into Positivistic Science (geneticism And Computerism), Economics (bottom-line Capitalism), And Single-minded Faith (fundamentalism).