Contemporary business life allows competitive relationships only, in which the major emotions are anxiety, tension, loneliness, rivalry, and fear. After work what do men do? Collect in a bar to hold light conversations over light beer, unities which are broken off whenever a young woman comes by or touches the brim of someone’s cowboy hat. Having no soul union with other men can be the most damaging wound of all. These wounds come into us whether we honor our parents or not, whether we are good or bad. Most of them we can describe as wounds to our grandiosity. When we are tiny we have the
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