My broader take on this is that the quasi-monetarists are trying too hard to find a deep essence when what's really needed is just a model.
These people love each other on the soul level; time and aging take nothing away from the spark when people love each other on this deep, essence level.
As Freud wrote, "The deepest essence of human nature consists of self-preservation, aggression, need for love, and the impulse to attain pleasure and avoid pain".
Devoid of cynicism or gratuitous judgment, he never failed to grasp the deeper essence of what one was trying to do.
Here I am, failing, and yet still I feel as though this job were, somehow, my deepest essence, who I really — " "Why do you talk like that?" I interrupted.
I wasn't indexing myself against the people around me". Andreessen reminded me — in his formidable achievements and manner, his thickly armored sensitivities and yearnings — of Rilke's remark "Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love".
Far from being a prison, or a constraint, revelation is an invitation to mankind to reconcile itself with its deepest essence, and to find there both the recognition of its limitations and the extraordinary potential of its intelligence and its imagination.
Allow the emotional logic to sink in: A well of happiness is not changed by happy or sad things around it -- it changes things around it by nurturing their deepest essence at that point where perfection recognizes perfection.
Then she points the way to how all of us can become our own best health steward by tuning into, with our deepest essence, what we need to be our most vital.
