The Icon and the Axe

certain inner strength: 'the good-humored serenity characteristic of people who see life as movement along the winding bed of a river, between hidden sandbanks and rocks.'10 One senses that deeper currents may be slowly pulling those on this river away from bends and banks into more open seas. One feels that neither the 'stormy passage'11 of recent times nor the deceptive reefs that no doubt lie ahead will prevent them from reaching their long-sought and still undiscovered destination: 'the other shore.'

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