Meditating on Yeats’ “Second Coming”.

It is often assumed (by skeptical natures) that “passionate intensity” is what defines “the worst” and that “lack of conviction” is the prescription to  cure it.

This in fact is a state of severe imbalance. The best must rediscover their passion — but a complex one that reaches beyond the biological and psychological self without losing them. The center must hold as the gyre opens.

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The synthesis of self and other resolves in such a way that the terms of the antitheses become authenticity and address.