Solutions To Problems Often Depend

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.

... 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.

When Any Relationship Is Characterized By Difference, Particularly A Disparity In Power, There Remains A Tendency To Model It On The Parent-child-relationship. Even Protectiveness And Benevolence Toward The Poor, Toward Minorities, And Especially Toward Women Have Involved Equating Them With Children.

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

The Past Empowers The Present, And The Sweeping Footsteps Leading To This Present Mark The Pathways To The Future.