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"Loneliness. No one is more sensitive to companionship than the lonely man, and also, to find something within loneliness. The desire to merge with the other to assuage the trauma of being thrown into a universe, cut off from the umbilical cord at birth, is something all of our contemporaries engage in, though there may be anomalies, that does not mean psychosomatic manifestations from Eros won't leak out." — Nov 23, 2025 10:30PM
"Loneliness. No one is more sensitive to companionship than the lonely man, and also, to find something within loneliness. The desire to merge with the other to assuage the trauma of being thrown into a universe, cut off from the umbilical cord at birth, is something all of our contemporaries engage in, though there may be anomalies, that does not mean psychosomatic manifestations from Eros won't leak out." — Nov 23, 2025 10:30PM
“The freer he can keep himself of hard and fast principles and the readier he is to sacrifice his ego-will, the better are his chances of being emotionally grasped by something greater than himself.”
― Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature
― Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature
“I have not only been accompanied by my wife, Lydia, on this path, but I have also benefited from her involvement in the ideas that are presented here as The Order-Disorder Paradox. Her encouragement, unflagging interest, and insights have been a major driving force over the time it has taken me to write this book.”
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
“I have not only been accompanied by my wife, Lydia, on this path, but I have also benefited from her involvement in the ideas that are presented here as The Order-Disorder Paradox. Her encouragement, unflagging interest, and insights have been a major driving force over the time it has taken me to write this book. It is a work that is our combined effort, a product of the conjoined field we have created.”
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
“I have not only been accompanied by my wife, Lydia, on this path, but I have also benefited from her involvement in the ideas that are presented here as The Order-Disorder Paradox.”
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
“Somehow this background lived through me, producing a kind of knowing that was totally new. I could see a severe level of paranoia in one person, and a sinister past in Nazi Germany in another, while in behavior they were kind and intelligent. As I later learned from someone who knew these people well, my perceptions were strikingly accurate. I just felt these things were true.”
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
― The Order-Disorder Paradox: Understanding the Hidden Side of Change in Self and Society
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