We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences which are so precious in themselves as to prove that not everything is a means to some end other than itself.

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.