Solutions To Problems Often Depend Upon How

The Critical Question About Regret Is Whether Experience Led To Growth And New Learning. Some People Seem To Keep On Making The Same Mistakes, While Others At Least Make New Ones. Regret And Remorse Can Be Either Paralyzing Or Inspiring. [p. 199]

What Would It Be Like To Have Not Only Color Vision But Culture Vision, The Ability To See The Multiple Worlds Of Others.

Every Loss Recapitulates Earlier Losses, But Every Affirmation Of Identity Echoes Earlier Moments Of Clarity.

Orthodox Judaism Is A Thicket Of Detailed Injunctions, Biblical Commandments Elaborated During Centuries Of Prohibited Proselytizing, Functioning To Limit Interaction With Outsiders. At The Opposite Extreme, Islam, Still The Most Rapidly Expanding Of Faiths, Demands Little Immediate Knowledge From Those Who Would Convert. The Convert Is Permitted To Enter And Then To Learn By Participation, Although There Are Plenty Of Detailed Regulations And Abstruse Theological Ideas To Be Pursued Later, And The Regulations Do Effectively Separate Believers From Nonbelievers.

The Family Is Changing Not Disappearing. We Have To Broaden Our Understanding Of It, Look For The New Metaphors.