E. J. Evans' life has followed a wandering path of inquiry into many things, including into his own nature and identity. In this collection of short personal essays he examines odd episodes from his own life, seeing them as opportunities to inquire into himself and into human nature in general. He writes of his long struggles to overcome the oppressive influence of his emotionally abusive father, to overcome chronic anxiety, to understand intimacy and love and to try to put them into practice in his own life, to understand the nature of his own neuroses, and to develop himself at last into a mature creative person with a mind open to the whole world. In his mature years he learns to make peace with himself and encounters, to his surprise, a great love that transforms his life. Throughout it all, Evans is driven by an ongoing curiosity about everything--especially obsessed with trying to understand the foundations of "human nature,"--and by an instinctive urge to try to transcend his own limitations.