It is mainly by resisting authority that the individual defines himself. This is why authorities–whether parental, priestly, political, or psychiatric–must be careful how and where they assert themselves; for while …
Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion …
At root, a pearl is a ‘disturbance’ a beauty caused by something that isn’t supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of …
No Self stands alone. Behind it stretches an immense chain of physical and – as a special class within the whole – mental events, to which it belongs as a …
The mental reactions of the inmates of a concentration camp must seem more to us than the mere expression of certain physical and sociological conditions. Even though conditions such as …
I want to be the condensation on the glass. I want to be that phenomenon that takes place between hot and cold. —Terrence Howard Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Out of the new arrivals in our lives–the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the …
