The ideal is the enemy of the real.
Susan Block, The Bonobo Way.
“Like my prehistoric hunter-gatherer ancestors, I hit the road fairly often in my footloose youth. From Yales Dramat to Afghanistans Bamiyan Buddhas, from the tantric ashrams of Kathmandu to the lib...”
“In Bonoboville, the females gently but firmly rule the roost, keeping the males gentle and firm”
“I loved the zebras, the cheetahs, the fruit flies, the octopi and the rest. But The Nature of Sex climaxed with a species Id never heard of before, bonobos, which the narrator also called by their ...”
“I squinted through the big window, a portal to another world, trying to get a better view of the primal love scene before us. All I could see was a mass of wriggling fur and finger-like toes until ...”
“Release your Inner Bonobo”
“Though bonobos tend to be a lot hairier than usand they dont build houses or churches or Pentagons like we dothese primates look and act remarkably human. They often even go beyond the merely human...”
“We are all looking for perfection in our lives, but the truth is, there is no perfect. Theres just better and worse. And for what we are in this world, not being perfect is the perfect thing.”
“Because I have an ideal to live up to. And I can't fall down in my own eyes!”
“Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.”
“There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.”
“It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.”
“A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snu...”
“Do you want this to be a love story?”
“It's all talk til it's all real walk.”
“Some things are only real because they represent what we think. When we learn the truth and think it, the old reality is no longer real to us and loses its hold on us. The truth sets us free.”
