I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

Then came those years in which I was forced to recognize the existence of a drive within me that had to make itself small and hide from the world of light. The…

Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a certain embarrassment. My sisters had become strangers to me…