“Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.” IdeasRealFactsBeliefOur LivesDenyTraditionalObscureClinging Book:The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self Source: The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
“When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life.” IfsWorldPersonsHas BeensStillsFactsJobsLeftStandardsJokesIdealsMovedPracticalsIgnorantCherishObscureManhoodIndulgeIndulge InDiscardedBoyhoodGaugesPractical Joke Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain
“I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active functioning. Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism- in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can be really idle.” LifeReasonFactsSuccessPowerfulImpossibleDyingDangerousGoes OnHealthyActivityDemandCreaturesPainfulActiveImpulseEggsIdleOrganismsSuccess In LifeObscureInactionLiving CreaturesHensRecuperation Author:H. L. Mencken
“Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.” YearsSaidFactsPainLeftCausesSportsFiguresSeriousSolutionsTherapyInjuryFrustrationObscureProceduresSurgeonsSpineHindsightBack Pain Author:Jerome Groopman