To clarify and unify these complexities, the author quotes many poets, from Beowulf to Dylan Thomas. These poets reconcile Man's moral behavior with the eternal truths. Goodness, beauty, and truth are to be their guides. They are the harbingers of hope, insisting that there is a purpose and meaning to life. Their poetry is a reflection of life and its hope.
Man needs both courage and faith.
The real meaning of life has to do with the courage to endure and to enjoy what life brings. There are those transitional individuals who synthesize the past and present for the future. They are the agents for the transformation of life to a higher level, the living hope for this swelling tide of consciousness. They are the people who are not involved in self-gratification. They find strength in higher synergy.