It becomes so easy to believe what one wishes to believe," Jhary said wearily. "So easy. - Michael Moorcock

Indeed, to be a hero, forever at war, is to be in some ways always a child. The true challenge comes in making sense of one’s life, of imbuing it with purpose based on one’s own principles.

This vast pile of natural beauty, those crags and fir trees and hovering hawks, those echoing ravines and vast tumblings of snow and earth, brought me swiftly to the understanding of my own insignificance and, indeed, the insignificance of all human struggle.

Often people fight hardest of all to preserve a delusion. And they will frequently persecute those who challenge that delusion.