Seth Fowler

“His great knack was to recover from setbacks, admit, at least to himself, that he had been wrong, and then adapt to the new situation and somehow win in the long run.” — Adrian Goldsworthy, Caesar: Life of a Colossus

Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever. – Herman Melville – at Pacifica, CA

"All human beings are in a quandary, but some are unable to cope with it: psychopathology depends on not merely on the presence of stress but on the interaction between ubiquitious stress and the individual's mechanims for defense." — Irvin Yalom Absolutely no one has it all figured out. But it helps to try to figure out some of it.

O Faithful Man of solitary life... learn the lessons of mastery over the body, of a meek spirit, of purity of mind, of destruction of pride. — St. Basil the Great, Letter XLIII (Admonition to the Young)

Your best attempts at creating a perfectly safe life will end up ruining you.