“I have always believed that each of us is responsible for doing her own emotional homework, that the process of facing down our ghosts is our small, attainable contribution to a kinetic process that holds the potential for healing the world. And why not? After all, the opposite is true: History has proven that people who are unwilling to catch and release their individual sadness, disappointments, and hidden motivations have compensated by wreaking havoc on the world. Good and evil lie within each of us, and every day we choose which potential to fill.”

- Deborah Daw Heffernan

Not that healing the world begins and ends with that, of course. But this applies - especially to people who tend to rush around fixing things, keeping busy, and then collapse in a heap.