From the time you begin to breathe, a war rages within. From the time you attain citizenship of this world, you must struggle with your own frailties to stand upright, as a human being was meant to stand. From the time you yearn to reach higher, you must engage the animal that comes dressed within this meat and bones, to carry it up with you. You must play its own game on its own turf, speak to it in its own language, meditate upon those matters that can inspire it, bear with it until you can bring it to the side of peace. You must descend to a place of chaos and madness to redeem yourself from there. And so this battle plays out not...