Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

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

Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately in search of distractions and escalating sensations, and a fundamentalist culture wherein the rigors of a private journey are shunned in favor of an ideology that, at the expense of the paradoxes and complexities of truth, favors one-sided resolutions, black-and-white values, and a privileging of one's own complexes as the norm for others.

In the end, we are only tiny frightened animals, doing our best to survive amid other tiny frightened animals.

What I refuse to face within myself will meet me in the exterior world through you, not as you are, but as I have so construed you.

Learning to live with ambiguity is learning to live with how life really is, full of complexities and strange surprises.

Anger is generally seen as an unwelcome presence in our midst, however natural it may be. Although each person, and each society, is charged with how anger is to be appropriately channeled, the denial of anger, or its continuous repression, is a deep source of our psychopathology and will invariably seek its expression in a less healthful fashion.