We Are Not What We Know But

Monotony And Repetition Are Characteristic Of Many Parts Of Life, But These Do Not Become Sources Of Conscious Discomfort Until Novelty And Entertainment Are Built Up As Positive Experiences.

When Parents Die, All Of The Partings Of The Past Are Reevoked With The Realization That This Time They Will Not Return.

Insight, I Believe, Refers To The Depth Of Understanding That Comes By Setting Experiences, Yours And Mine, Familiar And Exotic, New And Old, Side By Side, Learning By Letting Them Speak To One Another.

... As We Age We Have Not Only To Readdress Earlier Developmental Crises But Also Somehow To Find The Way To Three Affirmations That May Seem To Conflict. ... We Have To Affirm Our Own Life. We Have To Affirm Our Own Death. And We Have To Affirm Love, Both Given And Received.

The Capacity To Combine Commitment With Skepticism Is Essential To Democracy.