If you do not do the task of the first half of life well, you have almost no ability to rise up from the stumbling stone. You just stay down and defeated, or you waste your time kicking against the goad. There has been nothing to defeat your “infantile grandiosity,” as Dr. Robert Moore wisely calls it.2 In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is all upward and onward—and by ourselves. It works for so few, and it cannot serve us well in the long run—because it is not true. It is an inherently win-lose game, and more and
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