I am driven by the yearning to learn how to live; how to lead a meaningful life; the fear of not having yet learned how to die. - Maria Popova

We navigate the unknown frontiers of the social universe through a sextant of existing relationships — nearly every new person we meet is within only a few degrees of separation from someone we already know. But every once in a while, pure chance intercedes to remind us that whatever structures of control we may put into place, however much we may mistake the illusion of choice for the fact of choice, randomness is the reigning monarch of the universe.

However divided we may feel within ourselves, it is the sum total of our warring fractions that make us who we are — fragmentary but indivisible.

To live wonder-smitten with reality is the gladdest way to live.