“Life’s work is to wake up, to let things that enter into the circle wake you up rather that put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will. It’s going to stick around until you learn your lesson, at any rate.
You can leave your marriage, quit your job, go where people praise you, and manipulate your world until you’re blue in the face to try to make it always smooth, but the old demons will always come up until finally you have learned your lesson, the lesson they came to teach you.”
