The Road Less Travelled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (Classic Edition) of Peck, M. Scott on 07 February 2008
Language: English
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ISBN: B00CB5QZPG
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something up is painful. In this instance I had been unwilling to suffer the pain of giving up my ecstatic speed in the interest of maintaining my balance around the corner. I learned, however \".,that the lo~ of balance is ultimately more pa~l1~~1 tha~_ the giving up req~ance:-r-nOne wiY"'or -~"''''-''''--''''~'--------'-'.' Balancing 67 another it is a lesson I have continually had to relearn throughout my life. As must everyone, for as we negotiate the curves and corners of our lives, we
remaining cases, sometimes allegedly because of a minor accident, she develops a "phobia" about driving at some point after marriage and stops. The effect of this "phobia" in rural and suburban areas, where most people live, is to render her almost totally dependent on her husband and chain her husband to her by her helplessness. Now he must do all the shopping for the family himself or he must chauffeur her on all shopping expeditions. Because this behavior usually gratifies the dependency needs
more than one level at a time or to do more than provide an occasional glimpse of a level other than the one on which I am communicating. Cathexis Without Love 109 we send our pets for the development of their minds or spirits is obedience school. Yet it is possible for us to desire that other humans develop a "will of their own"; indeed, it is this desire for the differentiation of the other that is one of the characteristics of genuine love. Finally, in our relationship with pets we seek to
enough to be in a position in which many people ask for our attention, we must choose those among them whom we are actually to love. This choice is not easy; it may be excruciatingly painful, as the assumption of godlike power so often is. But it must be made. Many factors need to be considered, primarily the capacity of a prospective recipient of our love to respond to that love with spiritual growth. People differ in this capacity, a fact to which more examination will later be given. It is,
received more attention from a political standpoint than from a marital one. Pure communism, for instance, expresses a philosophy not unlike that of the aforementioned couples-namely, that the purpose and function of the individual is to serve the relationship, the group, the collective, the society. Only the destiny of the state is considered; the destiny of the individual is believed to be of no consequence. Pure capitalism, on the other hand, espouses the destiny of the individual even when it