The greatest barrier to self-understanding is our fear of knowing the truth within ourselves, but when we do understand ourselves, we greatly enhance what we are capable of.

If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.

We cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. – Charmainism

Life was about loss. One minute standing on the promise of your dreams, then free-falling backward into nothingness. Is this what it meant to grow old? To gradually be stripped of all you cared about....