“What flows out of it is as dulled and dumbed down as the subpar perceptions the senses roll in.”

“His mantle is tested day by day as his nerves grow stronger, his senses sharper, his judgment sounder, until each and every element of his character is refined from the coarse into the fine.”

“A man’s perception of time slows down and the moment grows increasingly vivid as he insists on ignoring everything except what is essential.”

“It is a psychological law that a man will in fact be rendered blind to his potential when the strains of an erratic and uncertain world are absent.”

“He stops, motionless, as if the clockwork that runs time and space has frozen itself to a halt.”

“One’s conditioned perspective can be to avoid this fact and cower at the sight of conflict, curling away, awash in a sea of childish emotion, or a man can adapt himself to the very peculiar approach of facing every problem with a sense of impartiality.”

“He assumes that every association that surfaces in his mind is a genuine element of his identity and so he indulges in nearly everything that arises.”

“He stirs around in an uncomfortable position when ideas disturb the status quo of his mind with the promise of opportunities to become better and greater than what base inertia otherwise makes available.”

“The blood heats up, boils and bubbles, clouding his mind with a discharge of emotional fervour.”

“An endless variety and combination of conditions and circumstances will encourage him to transform what is otherwise neutral energy into trivial complaints and anxieties.”