If we are unfaithful to true self, we will extract the price from others. - Parker Palmer

Reality—including one’s own—is divine, not to be defied but honored.

If the engineer does not honor the nature of the steel or the wood or the stone, his or her failure will go well beyond aesthetics: the bridge or the building will collapse and put human life in peril.
The human self also has a nature, limits as well as potentials. If you seek vocation without understanding the material you are working with, what you build with your life will be ungainly and may well put lives in peril, your own and some of those around you. “Faking it” in the service of high values is no virtue and has nothing to do with vocation. It is an ignorant, sometimes arrogant, attempt to override one’s nature, and it will always fail.

In depression, the built-in bunk detector that we all possess is not only turned on but is set on high.