Life is a series of experiences, all of them important, all of them here to be plumbed and squeezed and sucked dry, not for their own sake but so that we may come to know ourselves. Life is not what we see happening on the outside. Life is what goes on inside in the quiet, murky waters of our souls. And life is driven by energies too wild for us to ignore, too deep for us to hide.
— Joan Chittister, There Is A Season