Sublime

This model for individual human development ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation, a way of progressing from our current egocentric societies (materialistic, anthropocentric, competition based, class stratified, violence prone, and unsustainable) to soulcentric ones (imaginative, ecocentric, cooperation based, just,

Thomas refers to the latter perspective as “the time-developmental model.”13 His larger point is that our approach to the development of anything must now embrace both models — both circle and arc (in a sense, both feminine and masculine), which together describe a spiral progression through space and time.

The reason Dr. Schwartz examines family history so carefully is that he sees family background as fundamental to a person’s outlook on career.

it is individuals at the top of social hierarchies who set cultural agendas. As such, the Viennese preoccupation with the allure of nerves was not a trivial phenomenon. It was a glimpse of the future. A prophecy concerning the shape of the modern mind.

A man has two primary drives in early adulthood: one toward power, success, and accomplishment; the other toward love, companionship, and sex. Half of life then was out of order. To go before them was to stand up as a man and admit that I was only half a man.