The more of the world we can identify with and the wider our field of affections, the bigger we are and the less we have to try to prove it.

Abraham Maslow even believed that self-actualizing types are “those who make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day.

We must therefore be willing to get shaken up, to submit ourselves to the dark blossomings of chaos, in order to reap the blessings of growth.