Wars and Other Temper Tantrums

Galena Pavlenka

Every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness. Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

— Joseph Campbell

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As I was walking with a friend through a beautiful nature reserve near Malibu in California, we came upon the ruins of what had been once…