I Can No Longer Be Sure Whether

Each Of Us Needs An Adequate Biography: How Do I Put Together Into A Coherent Image The Pieces Of My Life? How Do I Find The Basic Plot Of My Story?

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.

The Self Divided Is Precisely Where The Self Is Authentically Located. . . We All Have Identity Crises Because A Single Identity Is A Delusion Of The Monotheistic Mind. . . Authenticity Is In The Illusion, Playing It, Seeing Through It From Within As We Play It, Like An Actor Who Sees Through His Mask And Can Only See In This Way.

The Greek Idea Of Fate Is Moira, Which Means "portion." Fate Rules A Portion Of Your Life. But There Is More To Life Than Just Fate. There Is Also Genetics, Environment, Economics, And So On. So It's Not All Written In The Book Before You Get Here, Such That You Don't Have To Do Anything. That's Fatalism.

Loss Means Losing What Was. We Want To Change But We Don't Want To Lose. Without Time For Loss, We Don't Have Time For Soul.