Isolation is often the greatest of teachers

Society is often a greater contaminate than is commonly recognized. Thus, the most formative of times are often when one is forced to face the world all alone, because isolation is often the greatest of teachers. Fear not solitude, for good old Mother Earth will always keep right on spinning 'round and 'round, all without our help, input, or approval. Just think of all the trees that stand as silent, solitary sentinels deep within the heart of forests far from prying, judgmental human eyes. Yet still each and every one is part of a much greater, infinitely interconnected ecosystem.

The Humblest of Things

For we all are but the humblest and most insignificant of things, fashioned from the dust. Yet it is from the very dust that, this day and every day, that I rise to the greatest of challenges. For it is in the knowing that I am nothing, and that ultimately, I therefore have nothing to lose, that I become truly mighty.