We Dull Our Lives By The Way

The Easy Path Of Aging Is To Become A Thick-skinned, Unbudging Curmudgeon, A Battle-ax. To Grow Soft And Sweet Is The Harder Way.

I Don't Think Anything Changes Until Ideas Change. The Usual American Viewpoint Is To Believe That Something Is Wrong With The Person.

So When You Consider The Archetypal, Historical, And Cultural Background Of Whatever You Do, It Gives You A Sense That Your Occupation Can Be A Calling And Not Just A Job.

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).

Rather Let Us Imagine The Anima Mundi As That Particular Soul-spark, That Seminal Image, Which Offers Itself Through Each Thing In Its Visible Form. Then Anima Mundi Indicates The Animated Possibilities Presented By Each New Event As It Is, Its Sensuous Presentation As A Face Bespeaking Its Interior Image - In Short, Its Availability To Imagination, Its Presence As Psychic Reality. Not Only Animals And Plants Ensouled As In The Romantic Vision, But Soul Is Given With Each Thing, God-given Things Of Nature And Man-made Things Of The Street.