We are born in denial. 

 

Like the pre-Copernicans of the Middle Ages, who thought that the earth was the center of the universe, we start by believing we are the center, that everything we see is but an extension of us, there to support us. 

 

It takes years for it to dawn on us that our parents merely participated in a process that they didn’t understand any better than we do. 

 

They no more “made” us than they made themselves or the trees outside the window. 

 

They were made as we were made. 

 

Neither they nor we are the center. 

 

There is no center.

 

- Allen Shawn - Wish I Could Be There -