For instance I've got to keep myself always fit." "But that's all physical and outside." She smiled, in her little superior way.

"It's the inside, the personal, the essential self that matters.

Life, properly understood, is a process of self-development.

If a human being is the same at the end of a year as he was at the beginning he has made no spiritual progress." Jaffery pulled his red beard.

"In other words, he hasn't lived," said he.
"Precisely." "And you think that I'm just the same sort of old animal from one year's end to another and that I don't progress worth a cent, and so, that I don't live." "I don't want to say quite that," she replied graciously.