Marion Milner writes,”I did not know that I could only get the most out of life by giving myself up to it.” And later, “It struck me as odd that it had taken me so long to reach a feeling of sureness that there was something in me that would get on with the job of living without my continual tampering. I suppose I did not really reach it until I had discovered how to sink down beneath the level of chatting thoughts and simply feel what it meant to be alive.”