The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition

It is when the spouses no longer feel like being in each other’s company always, when they would rather be elsewhere some of the time, that their love begins to be tested and will be found to be present or absent.

But while all fear is not laziness, much fear is exactly that.

We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.

There is a joy that comes with mastery. Indeed, there is no greater satisfaction than that of being an expert, of really knowing what we are doing.

“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering”;

the very things that had once caused him agony became the same things that brought him wisdom.

“Many are called, but few are chosen.”*

Most people want peace without the aloneness of power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.

To rise to a position of such power that we have no one to blame except ourselves is a fearful state of affairs.

While the words of the prophets and the assistance of grace are available, the journey must still be traveled alone.