If I asked you the same question I asked my patient

If I asked you the same question I asked my patient Aaron—“What do you want?”—and you could for a moment put aside the predictable anxiety that comes with it, I’m confident that at some point in your reflection you would move beyond the banal and become aware that what calls to you from the depths of your soul, what you most achingly long for, is that which is beautiful, good, true, and joyful. 

It is not difficult to identify beauty, goodness, and truth found in objects or experiences outside ourselves (e.g., the Grand…