Another thing I keep forgetting

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself and, if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself. For it is the unaccepted self that stands in my way and will continue to do so as long as it is not accepted.

A Search for Solitude. Edited by Lawrence S. Cunningham (San Francisco, HarperSanFrancisco,

1996): 220