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In A Word, To Perceive An Object Abstractly Means Not To Perceive Some Aspects Of It. It Clearly Implies Selection Of Some Attributes, Rejection Of Other Attributes, Creation Or Distortion Of Still Others. We Make Of It What We Wish. We Create It.

The Human Being Needs A Framework Of Values, A Philosophy Of Life, A Religion Or Religion-surrogate To Live By And Understand By, In About The Same Sense That He Needs Sunlight, Calcium Or Love.

The Most Beautiful Fate, The Most Wonderful Good Fortune That Can Happen To Any Human Being, Is To Be Paid For Doing That Which He Passionately Loves To Do.

There Are No Perfect Human Beings! Persons Can Be Found Who Are Good, Very Good Indeed, In Fact, Great. There Do In Fact Exist Creators, Seers, Sages, Saints, Shakers, And Movers...even If They Are Uncommon And Do Not Come By The Dozen. And Yet These Very Same People Can At Times Be Boring, Irritating, Petulant, Selfish, Angry, Or Depressed. To Avoid Disillusionment With Human Nature, We Must First Give Up Our Illusions About It.

[concerning] The Usual Contempt With Which An Orthodox Analytic Group Treats All Outsiders And Strangers ... I Urge You To Think Of The Young Psychoanalysts As Your Colleagues, Collaborators And Partners And Not As Spies, Traitors And Wayward Children. You Can Never Develop A Science That Way, Only An Orthodox Church.