Much of the fear of death comes from an intuition that we will be revealed as having avoided encounters with the deep self within us. - Michael J. Meade

kintsukuroi, or the “golden repair” of something treasured or important that has become cracked or broken. When applied to the repair of ancient and valuable pieces of pottery, the practice becomes kintsugi, or “golden joinery.” The key to this imaginative art appears when the glue used to fill the cracks and join the broken pieces becomes blended with actual gold. After the repairs have been made, the broken vessel becomes more valuable than ever. Metaphorically, kintsugi suggests that

The purpose of conflict is to create.

The esoteric level of philosophy reads as philosophia, which translates as both a love of knowledge and as the knowledge of love.