The experience of suffering is no less significant than that of liberation. The experience of confusion is no less necessary than that of clarity. The experience of chaos is not inferior to that of harmony. The experience of separation is no less sacred than that of oneness.

— Shiv Sengupta

We too are living now through such a world, caught again between two ages, confused and conflicted, suffocating and suffering. But we have a powerful instrument for self-understanding, for cutting through the confusion to draw from these civilizational phase transitions new and stronger structures of possibility: the creative spirit.

Maria Popova, The Marginalian