"When you go again that weary journey from negativity to affirmation, and find after the lows and highs stretches of interminable blank terrain, frightening in its loneliness, would anyone be blamed for feeling nauseous, for rejecting the phenomena as they come, or welcoming them hesitantly?
Maybe i have been guilty of excessive gloom. It's clear enough that you can purchase nothing concrete with a noble soul. But your own freedom can be an unperishable commodity, resisting all buffets and shocks, and can lead to insights jewel-like and sparkling in their preciousness, their small, giddy moments of splendour threatening to burn a hole in the monotony of being."