Dear Marcus, I am very humbled and grateful that you have pulled this all together including our enjoyable discussion yesterday. Great poem covering the bases too. As someone who has experienced great emotional pain since infancy, I have spent my life looking at ways to heal it, part of which has been enlarging my sense of self to accommodate it in that very Zen way. Being in a body is a hard business, especially for us sensitives. May we ever have compassion and understanding for each other and our apparent differences. “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,

Love is knowing I am everything,

and between the two my life moves.”

― Nisargadatta Maharaj