Windows

A person completely wrapped up in himself makes a small package. . .The great day comes when a man begins to get himself off his hands. He has lived, let us say, in a mind like a room surrounded by mirrors. Every way he turned he saw himself. Now, however, some of the mirrors change to windows. He can see through them to objective outlooks that challenge his interest. He begins to get out of himself--no longer the prisoner of self-reflections but a free man in a world where persons, causes, truths, and values exist, worthful for their own sakes. Thus to pass from a mirror mind to a mind with windows is an essential element in the development of a real personality. Without that experience no one ever achieved a meaningful life.