In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.

I do find the values in A Christmas Carol significant. It is important not to be mean and stingy and not to give up love for money.

For me, things were either very sullied or very pure, very controlled or very under-controlled.

In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not kind, because it is not truthful.

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The Great Divider

Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.