"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends,
to which, if persevered in, they must lead.
But if the courses be departed from,
the ends will change."
C. Dickens

The ghost of your past can be very frightening to face,
but if this ghost has helped to elevate you to a more
advanced spirit, then perhaps it is not such a frightening
ghost after all.
M. Alibrando