However, he does make statements that are
relevant to this blog. Some of what he says is independent confirmation of
various points, theories and insights.
I have found a few more good quotations to add to the ones already posted.
Life in a hostile, alien world
“There is one kind of prison where the man is
behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another
kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.”
From The Jungle
Very true, and some people experience both kinds of prison simultaneously! They are both imprisoned in a life that they hate but can’t escape from and excluded from the life that they want. They are doubly desperate because they are both trapped and debarred. It may seem to them that some locked and barred No Exit doors are detaining them in hell while impassable No Entry doors are preventing them from getting into heaven.
