A lesson in humility: Recognize the love deep inside your heart. Everything external to that is just fleeting gratification, like a cardigan loosely tied around your waist easily carried away, and not by the wind, but by the vigor of your steps you try to maintain to keep that external, fleeting world engaged. You trek uphill, steadily ignoring, nay, actively taking for granted, your internal world gently tapping at your door. So while you lost a cardigan, you (re)gained a world within.

"Rather than embracing fear as the context in which we decide and act, we can begin to shift more and more to love and trust as a basic condition for how we live. Rather than choosing separation and exclusion from others, we can move to the choice of openness and connection. These and other value and attitude shifts come from a choice to create a new individual and collective context for acting" --- David T. Kyle, Human Robots & Holy Mechanics

We know because we experience.

To be wholesome is to know what it means to break, but not only because of hurt or pain, but because you've explored the depths of you. The edges, the corners, the hidden spots, the places you don't want to look, and the obvious places. All vulnerability, all you, and all joy, and all at the same time. And what does this exploration reveal? You're being welcomed home, over and over again. And each time is renewal, with the added depth that was unknown to you before. Keep breaking. Keep expanding. "Keep on keeping on."

"Oh, but think of all the wonderful things you could do...for your country, for the world...you have been born to privilege, and with that comes specific obligations." ---EverAfter

"Our world is held together by agreements and our conversations about those agreements. If we want to live in a different world, we need to have different conversations." --- Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith via Envy McKee

"Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up." --- Antonio Machado