Don't Build Walls Against Life (a Postcard from Ulysses to Telemachus)
Don’t make yourself into an Ilion. I see clearly that human beings will build walls against Life. Even in sitting down to eat, they do battle with the sitting, with the eating, with those who have joined them in love and friendship. We cannot win such battles. You cannot defeat even a three legged stool. As a servant of Life it will have its revenge on you. You have to stand with your gates open at all times.