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A healthy personality does not suppress the dark side, the shadow, but embraces it, redeems it, and so becomes whole.
By Brother David Steindl-RastApril 1987An ex-spiritual-pest-control adherent; Portland, Oregon residents during the Chernobyl disaster; an expletive spewing six-year-old
By Our ReadersApril 1987When you look at history, you find that we’ve become a lot more merciful as individuals. There’s a paradox in that governments are becoming a lot more destructive, but ordinary individuals nowadays are much more compassionate than they were even a century ago. We have developed more delicate, more ethical sensibilities.
By Sy SafranskyApril 1987When I wanted a simple cure, I got complicated dreams instead. When I wanted reassurance, I got shards of enlightenment — and what am I supposed to do with that?
By D. Patrick MillerMarch 1987As a Westerner turning Buddhist in 1982, I was concerned about abandoning my “Christian heritage” for a foreign culture. I had never felt completely at home with that heritage: church seemed like a sterile routine, and any form of dogma affected me like one more arrogant know-it-all telling me how I should live.
By Stephen T. ButterfieldMarch 1987I was overjoyed. “My prayers have been answered,” I thought to myself as I got to my feet. “This . . . this . . . slob is drunk and mean and violent. He’s a threat to the public order, and he’ll hurt somebody if I don’t take him out. The need is real. My ethical light is green.”
By Terry DobsonMarch 1987Wandering the fields, rendezvousing in a cowshed, getting out the paper dolls
By Our ReadersMarch 1987When I returned from Denver to Manhattan last fall I needed a job. My first idea was to be one of those guys who sit on boxes outside discount stores on Dyckman Street watching that no one steals plastic coat hangers — but all those positions were filled. My next plan was to be Santa Claus.
By SparrowMarch 1987Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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