By Seeing Differently, We Do Differently

I Just Read About John Le Carre, The Great Spy Novelist. He Had An Absolutely Miserable Childhood. His Mother Deserted Him When He Was Young. His Father Was A Playboy And A Drunk. He Was Shifted Around To Many Different Homes. He Knew He Was A Writer When He Was About Nine, But He Was Dyslexic. So Here Was A Person With An Absolutely Messed-up Childhood And A Symptom That Prevented Him From Doing What He Wanted To Do Most. Yet That Very Symptom Was Part Of The Calling. It Forced Him To Go Deeper.

In The Past, Friendship Was A Huge Thing. But It's Hard For Us To Think Of Friendship As A Calling, Because It's Not A Vocation.

Well, If I'm Only A Result Of Past Causes, Then I'm A Victim Of Those Past Causes. There Is No Deeper Meaning Behind Things That Gives Me A Reason To Be Here.

As The Popular Trust In Science Fades - And Many Sociologists Say That's Happening Today - People Will Develop A Distrust Of Purely "scientific" Psychology. Researchers In The Universities Haven't Picked Up On This; They're More Interested In Genetics And Computer Models Of Thinking Than Ever. But, In General, There Is A Huge Distrust Of The Scientific Establishment Now.

We Dull Our Lives By The Way We Conceive Them.