which, from deep within, he collects his scattered self and returns to his center. Only the composed person is really someone. Only he can be seriously addressed as one capable of replying. Only he is genuinely affected by what life brings him, for he alone is awake, aware. And not only is he wide awake in the superficial sense of being quick to see and grab his advantage—this is a watchfulness shared also by birds and ants. What we mean is true awareness: that inner knowledge of the essential; that