When we allow it to expand, it produces feelings of freedom; if we ignore or repress it, our emotional troubles and confusions seem to multiply. We may not even know what it is we are feeling as it stirs—perhaps a hunger, perhaps a restlessness over worn-out behaviors, or over a world-view that no longer satisfies. We may try all sorts of non-productive things to satisfy this disquiet. But if we realize that the hunger is at its deepest origin spiritual and if we allow the intelligence of the seed to take us
