The only person you are fighting is yourself and your stubbornness to engage in new circumstances.

Once you believe that God is speaking directly to you, there is no discussion.

To the contrary: His life hummed with meaning and purpose. But the meaning he wrested from existence lay beyond the comfortable path: McCandless distrusted the value of things that came easily.

At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material excess, a world in which he felt grievously cut off from the raw throb of existence.

I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, or astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.