Vom Kriege

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. - Amadeu [Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel by Pascal Mercier

Because of the quirks of our human eagerness for the immediate reward, we are forewarned that what seems easy and straightforward is deceptively so; the roundabout is in practice a counterintuitive path — of acquiring later stage advantage. - Mark Spitznagel; The Dao Of Capital: Austrian Investing in a Distorted World

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” - Alan Watts

We could live
For a thousand years
But if I hurt you
I'd make wine from your tears
I told you
That we could fly
'Cause we all have wings
But some of us don't know why - INXS / Never Tear Us Apart

Difficult to estimate how much one has changed until we return to a place where we once lived… much less spent time in our youth. Heavy Programming of children starts early in New England ..

"He who does not shout the truth when he knows it makes himself the accomplice of liars and frauds."
Charles Péguy, Lettre du Provincial, 21 December 1899

Vom Kriege (German pronunciation: [fɔm ˈkʁiːɡə]) is a book on war and military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830, and published posthumously by his wife Marie von Brühl in 1832.[1] It is one of the most important treatises on political-military analysis and strategy ever written, and remains both controversial and influential on strategic thinking.[1][2]