To the Man Who Is No Longer Afraid

Part of our limitations is lifelong conditioning; we’ve bought into the social routine and, like most everyone else, wear the mantle of restraint and resignation without really knowing it’s there. It’s not so hard to understand why: To break away from family and responsibility is tough. Tougher still is to actually come face-to-face with your own f

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How little we seem to be able to control after all, I thought. We expend our life energy trying to get our children to become what we think they should be, and they turn into something else altogether. We work and work, weekends and evenings, but still feel unappreciated or undone by our own unconscious compulsions. In the words of the Indian mysti

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I’ve come to comprehend now, fifteen years after his death, that, even after accomplishing all that he did as an entrepreneur and a family man, my father knew deep down that he was still just a lost boy on the run, someone who has spent his whole life sprinting away from a painfully clear starting line but without a strong sense as to where he was

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The good husband is often a person who never learned how to take care of himself emotionally. He generally expects a woman to do this for him—his mother, his girlfriend, or his wife. She is there as his emotional security blanket, providing security that he seldom acknowledges. Indeed, he rarely, if ever, expresses any appreciation for her emotiona

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