We will call out to each other in the darkness of the Great Forest, so that we may not be lost to one another. Then, like the innocent Forest People, for a moment we will live in a world created by a God so benevolent that, when there is trouble, we will know that He must be asleep. And, like the Hasidim, just when life is heaviest with pain and anguish, that is the time when we will dance and sing together to waken the sleeping God of our own lost hope.
Sheldon B. Kopp
He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.
fear freedom
If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone.
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You can't anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)
So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.
religion life-lessons
So it is that there is nothing to be taught, but yet there is something to be learned.
learning life-lessons
Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.
psychology life-lessons
The most insidious of the premature responsibilities that may be foisted onto some children is the expectation that the child is somehow supposed to take care of his parents, rather than the other way around. Parents who were themselves raised with too little attention given to their own early feelings, if they have not worked out the resulting emotional problems in subsequent years, often look forward to having children of their own so that the children will make happy. (81)
parenting
That is one of the reasons why a man should pick a path with heart, so that he can find his laughter.
life laughter
It is, of course, necessary to have rules and procedures if we wish to accomplish large and complex tasks, but the question of whether or not it is worth the cost must be perennially re-examined. (117)
rules life
Anarchy could never get a man to the moon, but it may the only mode that can allow us to survive on earth.
anarchy
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