“Our parents, our tribesman, our authority figures, clearly expect us to be bad or anti-social or greedy or selfish or dirty or destructive or self-destructive. Our social nature is such that we tend to meet the expectations of our elders. Whenever this reversal took place and our elders stopped expecting us to be social and expected us to be anti-social, just to put it in gross terms, that's when the real fall took place. And we're paying for it dearly.” RealSelfFallSocialParentTermFiguresAuthorityExpectationsExpectedSelfishDirtyDestructiveExpectingGreedyGrossEldersSelf DestructiveReversalAnti SocialAuthority Figures Author:Jean Liedloff
“We take it for granted that life is hard and feel lucky to have whatever happiness we get. We do not look upon happiness as a birthright, nor do we expect it to be more than peace or contentment. Real joy, the state in which the Yequana spend much of their lives, is exceedingly rare among us.” FeelsLooksRealHardStatesLife IsJoyLuckyGrantedLook UpContentmentBirthrightLife Is HardReal Joy Book:The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully Source: The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully
