The fact that many a man who goes his own way ands in ruin means nothing…. He must obey his own law as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths…. There are not a few who are called awake by the summons of the voice, where upon they are at once set apart from the others, feeling themselves confronted with a problem about which the others know nothing.
In most cases it is impossible to explain to the others what has happened for any understanding is walled off by impenetrable prejudices
“You are no different from anybody else”, they will chorus, or, “there’s no such thing”, and even if there is such a thing, it is immediately branded as “morbid”.
….. he is at once set apart and isolated, as he has resolved to obey the law that commands him from within. “his own law!”. Everybody will cry. But he knows better: it is the law….. the only meaningful life is a life that strives for the individual realization- absolute and unconditional- of it’s own particular law……. To the extent that a man is untrue to the law of his being…. He has failed o realize his life’s meaning.
The undiscovered vein within us is a living part of the psyche; classical Chinese philosophy names this interior way” Tao, and likens it to a flow of water that moves irresistibly towards it’s goal.
To rest in Tao means fulfilment, wholeness one’s destination reached, one’s mission don; the beginning, end, and perfect realization of the meaning of existence innate in all things. (Gustav Jung).

Kort en bondig van de Saint Exupéry:

Neen, ik heb het gevaar niet gezocht.
Ik weet wat ik zocht.
Ik zocht het leven.