“The main art in spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself” (pp. 20, 21). All too often when problems arise or troubles come, when disappointments or denials confront us, when we get a slight case of the blues or feel somewhat down, we allow ourselves to focus on the unpleasantries around us or within us. Or we listen to others who commiserate with us and tell us how terrible our situation