I must see your motives, your disposition, your loves and hates,
your aspirations and longings and hopes, before I can say I see
you. How tall are you? How much do you weigh? Six feet, you say,
and weigh a hundred and fifty pounds? Both of us are wrong. You
can’t measure the self by a foot-rule, nor weigh it in iron
scales. Every time you aspire and hope and love you escape the
body and live in the heights and distances. To estimate you
aright I must gather up all your hopes and aspirations and
faiths and loves; and if you have been wise enough to reach up
and lay hold of the eternal I must weigh and measure the eternal
in order to estimate you.--ROBERT MACDONALD.
(1998)