A Few Words for the Next 1,000 Years, page 3

EDITOR'S NOTE
When Buddhists
Meet a bin-Laden

BUDDHASCOPE
Spiritual Spuds
& Alien Buddhas

DHARMATALK
On Revulsion
& Anger-Eating

FOUNDOBJECTS
Mohammed Never
Said be a Bomb

GUESTCOLUMN
Mental Muck-ups in
Post-Sept. 11 life

QUOTES
Words to the Wise
From the Wise

POETRY
Poetic Irreverence
from the Kitchen

READING ROOM
Useful Information
and Inspiration.

REVIEWS
Zen Pop by
Leonard Cohen

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A FEW WORDS, Continued: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax.

To grow soft and sweet

is the harder way.

---JAMES HILLMAN, from his 1999 book "The Force of Character and the Lasting Life."