Nostalgia

   The first initiative of a man seeking the way must be to reject the habitual image that he has of himself. He will be able to begin to say "I" only when the magical word corresponds to the inner imagination of self-awareness unconstrained by limitations of space, time, or power.    Human beings must retrieve the sense of the reality of themselves. At present, they only limit and diminish themselves, feeling different and smaller than they really are; every thought they conceive and every deed they perform adds one more bar to their prison cell, one more veil to their vision, one more denial of their power. They lock themselves inside the limits of their bodies and attach themselves to the earth that carries them: it is as if an eagle fancied to be a snake and crawled on the ground, ignoring its wings.    It is not only that man ignores, deforms, and denies himself, but that he also reenacts the myth of Medusa, turning everything around him into stone...