Breaking bad

Some of us have a tendency to hold forth, to speechify. Awareness of this stops it. But the awareness must be right there, in the moment of loquacity.

The sex habit

Don’t take sex too seriously. It is, after all, just a habit. Habits can be indulged, cultivated, hung onto, detached from or broken. Whatever seems right and natural, that’s the thing to do.

Preferences and aversions

What we call the human person is a 50 trillion-celled constellation of habits and memories. When these go, so does the person.

Unshackled

Freedom is not freedom to do this or that. It’s freedom from something.

Bound

Man’s principal confinements are habit and memory.