Only when one is connected to one’s own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can bes… - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

This is what one thirsts for, I realize, after the smallness of the day, of work, of details, of intimacy – even of communication, one thirsts for the magnitude and universality of a night full of stars, pouring into one like a fresh tide.

Why do progress and beauty have to be so opposed? ; 75
Also, as in war, the case, like a great bubbling cauldron of life itself, threw up both good and evil. Greed, madness, cruelty and indifference were countered by goodness, devotion, self-sacrifice, and courage. p 178

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.