I came to see that the core of all my problems was my sense of inadequacy . . . At that time I didn’t understand shame . . . in my grandiosity I was either superhuman (exceptional) or inhuman (wormlike.) I was never first human. If I tried to be more than human...
‘What difference does it make,’said the dervish, ‘if there is good or evil? When His Highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he worry about whether or not the mice are comfortable on board?’ Voltaire, Candide I think I am the last person on earth to...
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were on the Dick Cavett Show in September, 1971. Imagine had just come out. Yoko had also released a new record and a conceptual book. She’s sitting in the first chair and she’s wearing an expensive-looking, orange velvet...
Alyosha in The Brothers Karamazov. The classic hero in a dysfunctional family. Most psychically wounded people do not become saints, but maybe they should. If a person dies of sadness, or simply doesn’t have the balls to overcome a painful...
