“Fear is a collection of physical responses, I told myself.
Fear is accelerated heartbeats and rapid breaths and sweaty palms. Fear is a doorway to anger, and anger is a doorway to power.”
Görüş açımızı altüst etmeyi öğrenmemiz gerekir. İnsanların genellikle zorluk ya da felaket olarak gördükleri, beddua edip her ne pahasına olursa olsun kaçındıkları her şey, aslında ölüm psikolojisini yaşam psikolojisine dönüştürmeyi sağlayacak değerli deneyimlerdir.
Life through this world is a School for Gods.
Confusion, doubt, chaos, crisis, anger, despair and pain are all excellent conditions for growth.
Dünyadaki yaşam, bir “Tanrılar Okulu”dur.
Karışıklık, şüphe, kargaşa, kriz, öfke, umutsuzluk ve acı; büyümek için değerlendirilmesi gereken mükemmel fırsatlardır.
“It’s his story.” Dancer traces the pitviper bites on his neck. “A man has the right to tell his own story. But this isn’t a happy one. Sad as yours. Sad as mine. Strip a man of what he loved, and what is left? Just hate. Just anger. But he was the first to know there could be something more. He found me. He found you. Who the bloodydamn are we to question him?”
With the erosion of the middle class in recent decades, people who judged themselves in terms of worldly success have sustained a perceived loss of worth. The promise of the middle-class dream has largely evaporated, to the distress and deep anger of many. But even people perched atop the economic pyramid can experience devaluation of self, for the simple reason that materialistic values can counter to the need for meaning for purpose beyond self-serving endeavors.