
His ongoing lifelong struggle, says Hersey, was the struggle “to subdue the greater but sicker saint in himself and give himself to a more modest state of being: one of balance, sanity, serenity, and realized human love.”
Source: John Hersey, The Call (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985), p. 17.
Dr Geoff Pound
Image: John Hersey, a Chinese-born American writer.