You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.

What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to feel. Moreover, what we think is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to think, and what we feel is very much a matter of what we wish and seek to feel. In short, the condition of our mind is very much a matter of the direction in which our will is set.

What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.

It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.