Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself. - Frank Herbert

The mind can go either direction under stress — toward positive or toward negative:

I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. I know that few of you who read my words have ever thought about your ancestors this way. It has not occurred to you that your ancestors were survivors and that the survival itself sometimes involved savage decisions, a kind of wanton brutality which civilized humankind works very hard to suppress. What price will you pay for that suppression? Will you accept your own extinction?
-The Stolen Journals

I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.