“Being requires accepting oneself, staying within oneself and not doing to prove oneself. It is a discipline that is accorded no applause from the outside world; it questions production for production’s sake. Politically and economically it has little value, but its simple message has wisdom: If I can accept myself as I am, and if I am in harmony with my surroundings, I have no need to produce, promote, or pollute to be happy. And being is not passive; it takes focused awareness.”

—Maureen Murdock, The Heroine’s Journey