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It is the battle between two tremendous forces in the human mentality, one seeking fulfillment of primal urges at easy levels; the other seeking total integration of the personality at levels of its higher aspiration.
Creative Vision in Artist and Audience
Richard Guggenheimer
Older women have learned the importance of reasonable expectations. We know that all our desires will not be fulfilled, that the world isn’t organized around pleasing us and that others, especially our children, are not waiting for our opinions and judgments. We know that the joys and sorrows of life are as mixed together as salt and water in the sea. We don’t expect perfection or even relief from suffering. A good book, a piece of homemade pie or a call from a friend can make us happy. As my aunt Grace, who lived in the Ozarks, put it, “I get what I want, but I know what to want.”
The Joy of Being a Woman in Her 70s
Mary Pipher
Your thoughts are the hills and animals, the birds and seasons of inner worlds, as you dwell in the universe outside.”
Dialogues of the Soul and Mortal Self in Time
Jane Roberts
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