My own parents were very un-neurotic, so I never thought that I had to change enormously in order to become a parent.
You are in the same manner surrounded with a small circle of persons. . . full of desire. They demand of you the benefits of desire. . . You are therefore properly the king of desire. . . . equal in this to the greatest kings of the earth. . . It is desire that constitutes their power; that is, the possession of things that men covet.