Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

People who have discovered a purpose feel better, like themselves more, age more subtly, and live longer.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful - the 'ruling class' - make up the rules as they go along.

Victory doesn't lie in taming our nature but in progressively discovering and revealing more of it.