God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.

Relationships are never about power, and one way to avoid the will to hold power over another is to chose to limit to onself - to serve. Humans often do this - in touching the infirm and sick, in serving the ones whos minds have left to wander, in relation to the poor, in loving the very old and the very young, or even in caring for the others who has assumed a position of power over them.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did not have such a relationship within myself, then I would not be capable of love at all? You would have a god who could not love. Or maybe worse, you would have a god who, when he chose, could love only as a limitation of his nature.

The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky