Sometimes life seems like a poorly designed cage within which man has been sentenced to be free.

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

Dreams provide a kind of wisdom of the heart, an echoing voice of a profound human sensitivity too often lost to us in the reasonable life of days.

And so, it is not astonishing that, though the patient enters therapy insisting that he wants to change, more often than not, what he really wants is to remain the same and to get the therapist to make him feel better. (4)

So it is that God tugs at a pilgrim's sleeve telling him to remember that he is only human. He must be his own man, remain in exile, and belong to himself. He must pay attention to his own feelings and to the meaning of what he does, if he is to be for himself, and yet for others as well.

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

For each of us, the only hope resides in his own efforts, in completing his own story, not in the other's interpretation. (63)