How Generous Was It To Offer Gifts

We Are Tempted To Believe That Certain Achievements And Possessions Will Give Us Enduring Satisfaction. We Are Invited To Imagine Ourselves Scaling The Steep Cliff Face Of Happiness In Order To Reach A Wide, High Plateau On Which We Will Live Out The Rest Of Our Lives; We Are Not Reminded That Soon After Gaining The Summit, We Will Be Called Down Again Into Fresh Lowlands Of Anxiety And Desire.

Our Greatest Furies Spring From Events Which Violate Our Sense Of The Ground Of Our Existence.

Being Content Is Perhaps No Less Easy Than Playing The Violin Well: And Requires No Less Practice.

Every Adult Life Could Be Said To Be Defined By Two Great Love Stories: The Story Of Our Quest For Sexual Love And The Story Of Our Quest For Love From The World.

It Is By Finding Out What Something Is Not That One Comes Closest To Understanding What It Is.