We must discover our own path to joy and a sense of leading a purposeful existence. I spent the first part of life attempting to discern what a man ought to be, and spent the latter years attempting to reconcile why I was not the man whom I always aspired to be. A person endures a tragic consumption of the spirit when they discover that they are not what they desired to become.

A wounded person must examine the poverty of his or her untidy emotions in order to ascertain the archeological roots of their festering misery.

We seek to escape the dark cave of a despondent mind by either dulling oneself mentally or through imaginative acts. One form of escapism is daydreaming.

A person whom encounters disproportionate grief is likely to either capitulate to madness or ascend to a higher level of cognitive awareness.

Despair, self-doubt, and desire cripple human beings.

Human beings experience sadness because they want what is beyond human ability – absolute control and an immortal life.

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.

Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.

Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure.