The repetition is amusing because it shows that by announcing it, a problem is not solved. And it returns again and again in new forms, demanding new recognition. It is difficult, how it is difficult to maintain integrity in contact with the world! If this effort is what Goethe called character, the world can only be seen as a test. And without prayer, meditation and the daily affirmation of one’s vows, it is very easy to degrade oneself in the face of a victorious world. Prayer and meditation are superlative and indispensable practices. Distancing oneself from them, distancing oneself from constructive reading, and the spirit is lost as quickly as it is strengthened when it approaches them. Only fools can deny this.