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"Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart."

"Fear left unrestrained always leaves us running ‘from’ something. Fear harnessed compels us to run ‘to’ something. And fear denied leaves us running in circles."

"Safety is not a destination that we reach for, rather it is a retreat that we escape to. And if our lives are marked by the incessant search for safety, we will live the whole of it going in reverse."

"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence."

"If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found."

"I've had so much of you in such little time that I shouldn't be suffering from withdrawal!"

"External relationships seem to have been emptied by a massive withdrawal of the real libidinal self. Effective mental activity has disappeared into a hidden inner world; the patient's conscious ego is..."

"It was a dictum of his that the soul's energy thrives when the body's desires are feeblest."

"To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish."

"They sell courage of a sort in the taverns. And another sort, though not for sale, a man can find in the confessional. Try the alehouses and the churches, Hugh. In either a man can be quiet and think."