This humanist exhortation by the ancients is the antithesis of this past year of Death, Famine, War and Conquest. A year that forebodingly felt like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse had arrived to ride roughshod over all of us. But, no, our disasters were not biblical revelations fulfilled,.
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I imagine that humbly accepting this fragility of our existence is what happens when the truly spiritual fall on their knees, bow their heads in prayer and embrace grace.There is something primordial and sacred about our vulnerability in the face of nature, that over which we have no control.