My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Friday, March 27, 2015
Reverting to Strength
Somewhere in evolution physical strength was more essential, but it gave way to more subtle means of managing life and the environment in which it takes place. Unfortunately, we are sometimes reluctant to effect this development, applying it more selectively than is beneficial, resorting instead to strength in its more dramatic -- if least effective -- forms. If we are not always secure in the developmental process, we would do better to do nothing rather than reverting and calling it virtue.
Labels:
essence,
evolution,
growth,
insecurity,
reluctance,
strength
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