We Forget That The Soul

Why Do We Focus So Intensely On Our Problems? What Draws Us To Them? Why Are They So Attractive? They Have The Magnet Power Of Love: Somehow We Desire Our Problems; We Are In Love With Them Much As We Want To Get Rid Of Them . . . Problems Sustain Us -- Maybe That's Why They Don't Go Away. What Would A Life Be Without Them? Completely Tranquilized And Loveless . . . There Is A Secret Love Hiding In Each Problem

Mediocrity Is No Answer To Violence. In Fact, It Probably Invites Violence. At Least The Mediocre And The Violent Appear Together As In The Old Western Movies - The Ruffian Outlaw Band Shooting Up Main Street And The Little White Church With The Little White Schoolteacher Wringing Her Hands. To Cool Violence You Need Rhythm, Humor, Tempering; You Need Dance And Rhetoric. Not Therapeutic Understanding.

Suppose That Throughout Your Childhood You Were Good With Numbers. Other Kids Used To Copy Your Homework. You Figured Store Discounts Faster Than Your Parents. People Came To You For Help With Such Things. So You Took Accounting And Eventually Became A Tax Auditor For The Irs. What An Embarrassing Job, Right? You Feel You Should Be Writing Poetry Or Doing Aviation Mechanics Or Whatever. But Then You Realize That Tax Collecting Can Be A Calling Too.

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.

The Word Power Has Such A Generally Negative Implication In Our Society. What Are People Talking About? Are They Talking About Muscles, Or Control?