The broader unquestioned premises upon which my own culture founded its view of the human condition, such as the one that Unhappiness is as legitimate a part of experience as happiness and necessary in order to render happiness appreciable, or that it is more advantageous to be young than to be old: those still took me a long time to pry loose for reexamination.
The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully (ed. Da Capo Press, 1985) - ISBN: 9780201050714