We are never at home with ourselves until we have come to be what we know ourselves to be inside. And what we are inside, we are born with and meant to unleash.

But all too often—for social approval or fear of risk or neurotic self-doubt or quick gain—we have learned to resist the call of God to full development with might and main. We stay where we are because we prefer the security of the present to the possibility of the future. …We are each called to do something. Discovering where it is that God will break out in us becomes the major task of life.