We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

In moments of spiritual crisis we naturally fall back upon what worked for us, or seemed to work, heretofore. Sometimes this shows up through the reassertion of our old values in belligerent, testy ways. Regression of any kind is just such a return to old presumptions, often after they have been shown to be insufficient for the complexity of larger questions. The virtue of the old presumptions is that they once worked, or seemed to work, and therein lies if not certainty, then nostalgia for a previous, presumptive security. In our private lives, we frequently fall back upon our old roles.

There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called “midlife crisis” exists.

We best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.

Destiny commands... and imposes a sacred obligation to show up in the face of one's desire for a normal, casual life... there are other forces afoot of which consciousness has only the dimmest of understandings.