“No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better

life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it.”

– Richard Bach, American writer, author of Illusion and Jonathan Livingston Seagull

“I don’t know,” he said. I could tell he was becoming aggravated.

“But what do you want?” she persisted. “What do you really, truly want?”

“I told you I don’t know.” He paused for a moment then added, “I want this stupid exercise to be over.”  The female participant looked over at me then back at her husband and posed the question again. He held up both his hands in resignation and shook his head.

“I’ve reached the wall,”...

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