The symptoms and the illness are not the same thing. The illness exists long before the symptoms. Rather than being the illness, the symptoms are the beginning of its cures. The fact that they are unwanted makes them all the more a phenomenon of grace-a gift of god, a message from the unconscious, if you will, to initiate self-examination and repair.

The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2002) - ISBN: 9780743238250