'...the desire to escape is not always something to be denounced, as any prisoner or slave could tell you. Jesus said, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth and the truth will make you free" (John 8:31-32). Free from sin, he explained when they pressed him. Free from imprisonment within the narrow walls of your own not-all-that-enlightened self-interest. Free from enslavement to your own shabbiest instincts, deceits, and self-deceptions. Freedom not from responsibility but for it. Escape not from reality but into it.
The best moments we any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the lanscape of being us.'
Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, p.21.
