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 quest
 "The
more a person's life is concerned with the quest for the essential, the
more likely he is to perceive a symbolic meaning in what is happening
before his eyes." [Philip Friedländer, Plato
8 (New York: Harper Torchbooks/Bollingen Library, 1958)(vol. 1)]
"To remain vibrant throughout a lifetime we must always be inventing
ourselves, weaving new themes into our life-narratives, remembering our
past, re-visioning our future, reauthorizing the myth by which we live."
[Sam Keen & Anne Valley-Fox, Your Mythic Journey:
Finding Meaning in Your Life Through Writing and Storytelling xv
(Los Angles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1989)]
"In
our society, among the most desired and admired statuses is to be a member
of a profession. Such status is attained not by going into the woods for
intense, but brief, ordeals of initiation into adult mysteries, but by
a long course of professional instruction. . . ."
[Howard S. Becker, et.al., Boys in White: Student Culture in Medical
School 4 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961)]
"A
profession to be worthy of the name must inculcate in its members a strong
sense of the special obligations that attach to their calling. One who
undertakes the practice of a profession cannot rest content with the faithful
discharge of duties assigned to him by others. His work must find its
direction within a larger frame. All that he does must evidence a dedication,
not merely to a specific assignment, but to the enduring ideals of his
vocation. Only such a dedication will enable him to reconcile fidelity
to those he serves with an equal fidelity to an office that must at all
times rise above the involvements of immediate interest." ["Professional
Responsibility: Report of the Joint Conference," in Andrew L. Kaufman,
Problems in Professional Responsibility 2-16, at 4 (Boston: Little,
Brown, 2nd ed., 1984)]
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